Dixi quod… >dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: > unknown system group 'plocate' in statoverride file; the system group got > removed >before the override, which is most probably a packaging bug, to recover you >can remove the override manually with dpkg-statoverride
Before I do that, its contents: (sid-amd64)root@tglase:~ # grep . /var/lib/dpkg/statoverride* /var/lib/dpkg/statoverride:root plocate 2755 /usr/bin/plocate /var/lib/dpkg/statoverride:root smmsp 2755 /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail /var/lib/dpkg/statoverride:root smmsp 2755 /usr/libexec/sendmail/mailstats /var/lib/dpkg/statoverride:root messagebus 4754 /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper /var/lib/dpkg/statoverride-old:root plocate 2755 /usr/bin/plocate /var/lib/dpkg/statoverride-old:root mlocate 2755 /usr/bin/mlocate /var/lib/dpkg/statoverride-old:root smmsp 2755 /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail /var/lib/dpkg/statoverride-old:root smmsp 2755 /usr/libexec/sendmail/mailstats /var/lib/dpkg/statoverride-old:root messagebus 4754 /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper (sid-amd64)root@tglase:~ # ll /var/lib/dpkg/statoverride* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 195 Oct 7 23:03 /var/lib/dpkg/statoverride -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 230 Oct 7 23:03 /var/lib/dpkg/statoverride-old The timestamp matches the previous upgrade. bye, //mirabilos -- [...] if maybe ext3fs wasn't a better pick, or jfs, or maybe reiserfs, oh but what about xfs, and if only i had waited until reiser4 was ready... in the be- ginning, there was ffs, and in the middle, there was ffs, and at the end, there was still ffs, and the sys admins knew it was good. :) -- Ted Unangst über *fs
