On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 04:25:43PM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > I installed for some tests the cyrus-imap server. > Today I did: > apt-get --purge remove cyrus-imap > I saw that the cyrus user was not removed from /etc/passwd, so I did: > userdel cyrus > > And now, I can't install packages anymore, I get the followinf error: > dpkg: syntax error: unknown user `cyrus' in statusoverride file > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) > > Anyone has an idea how to resolve this problem without recreating the cyrus user > which I don't need...
I'm not sure if this is the best way to do it, but there is a file called /var/lib/dpkg/statoverride. See if there is a line starting with "cyrus". If there is, make a backup of the file then remove the line from the file. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
