Package: fuse-utils Version: 2.2.1-4sarge2 Severity: critical When the fuse-utils package is removed, it does not properly remove the status override for /usr/bin/fusermount. This causes almost any subsequent dpkg command to fail with the following error:
dpkg: syntax error: unknown group `fuse' in statusoverride file Naturally, this breaks apt-get and aptitude as well. The fix for this is to run the following command when the fuse-utils package is removed: dpkg-statoverride --remove /usr/bin/fusermount Here is a transcript of the problem (edited for readability): blueberry:root# aptitude install fuse-utils [Works without errors] blueberry:root# aptitude remove fuse-utils [Works, but does not adjust the statoverride file] blueberry:root# dpkg-statoverride --list root Debian-exim 0640 /etc/exim4/passwd.client root games 2755 /usr/games/wing root fuse 4754 /usr/bin/fusermount blueberry:root# aptitude install fuse-utils ['upgrade' or 'install' of any package now fails with errors] Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: fuse-utils 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/39.7kB of archives. After unpacking 106kB will be used. Writing extended state information... Done Preconfiguring packages ... dpkg: syntax error: unknown group `fuse' in statusoverride file E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) Ack! Something bad happened while installing packages. Trying to recover: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done blueberry:root# dpkg-statoverride --remove /usr/bin/fusermount [Fixes the problem] blueberry:root# aptitude install fuse-utils [Works without errors] While this is clearly a bug in fuse-utils, I believe that dpkg itself should not be so brittle. Why should dpkg be completely hosed if a package misuses dpkg-statoverride? Ben Wong -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i586) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-386 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages fuse-utils depends on: ii debconf 1.4.30.13 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii sed 4.1.2-8 The GNU sed stream editor ii ucf 1.17 Update Configuration File: preserv -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
