Package: dpkg Version: 1.16.10 Hi,
I came accross the issue in a chroot, but it probably also maps to non-chroot setups, though perhaps less likely. | (sid_amd64-dchroot)root@barriere:~# grep postqueue /var/lib/dpkg/statoverride | root postdrop 2555 /usr/sbin/postqueue | (sid_amd64-dchroot)root@barriere:~# dpkg-statoverride --remove /usr/sbin/postqueue | dpkg-statoverride: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: | syntax error: unknown group 'postdrop' in statoverride file | (sid_amd64-dchroot)root@barriere:~# grep postqueue /var/lib/dpkg/statoverride | root postdrop 2555 /usr/sbin/postqueue The problem is that when a group no longer exists, dpkg-statoverride in incapable of removing the entry. Furthermore, dpkg is incapable of doing anything at all from now on: | # apt-get install vim | Reading package lists... Done | Building dependency tree | Reading state information... Done | Suggested packages: | ctags vim-doc vim-scripts | The following NEW packages will be installed: | vim | 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. | Need to get 841 kB of archives. | After this operation, 1922 kB of additional disk space will be used. | Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sid/main vim amd64 2:7.3.547-7 [841 kB] | Fetched 841 kB in 1s (630 kB/s) | dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: | syntax error: unknown group 'postdrop' in statoverride file | E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) This problem showed up for me, because postfix was installed and then - for external reasons - the group database was restored to a pre-install version. Worse, it's not really possible to cleanly recover from this without manually editing dpkg's private files in /var/lib: - purging postfix would do the dpkg-statoverride --remove, but that doesn't help. - manually doing dpkg-statoverride --remove is likewise not successful (see above). Maybe the statoverride parser should be more forgiving? weasel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
