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On Fri, 08 Jun 2001 at 10:02:54 -0400, Debian User wrote: > On Friday 08 June 2001 09:26, Colin Watson wrote: > > Debian User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >dpkg --install file.deb keeps giving a statusoverride error. How to fix > > >this????? > > > > Do you mean the 'file' package, or is that just a way of saying "any > > package"? Please show us the *full* error message. > > > > Thanks, > > That is any package > states: dpkg: syntax error: invalid mode in statusoverride file > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned error code (2) Your /var/lib/dpkg/statoverride might be corrupt. For instance, mine looks like this: root mail 664 /etc/groupie/mailtonews.conf root adm 4754 /usr/bin/lpr root root 755 /usr/lib/apache/suexec root root 04755 /usr/bin/ssh root vmware 04754 /usr/sbin/vmnet root jwhois 0775 /var/cache/jwhois root tty 6755 /usr/bin/write root root 04755 /usr/sbin/ssh root jwhois 02755 /usr/bin/jwhois root mail 664 /etc/groupie/groupie.lists root vmware 04750 /usr/bin/hercifc My guess is that the third field of one of the lines isn't a number (it should be a numeric file mode, like the above). Fix that and all should be well. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
