Package: sendmail-bin Version: 8.15.2-14~deb10u1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
Given the following commands are run on a fresh buster install: apt install sendmail apt install postfix apt autoremove --purge When I try to install any package, e.g. apt install mutt Then I get an error: dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: unknown system group 'smmsp' 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 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) This error effectively blocks the installation of any further package. When in this state, the package sendmail-bin is removed, but not purged. The problem goes away after running the following command: apt purge sendmail-bin -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.1 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-6-cloud-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages sendmail-bin depends on: ii debconf 1.5.71 ii libc6 2.28-10 ii libdb5.3 5.3.28+dfsg1-0.5 ii libldap-2.4-2 2.4.47+dfsg-3+deb10u1 pn liblockfile1 <none> ii libsasl2-2 2.1.27+dfsg-1 ii libssl1.1 1.1.1c-1 ii libwrap0 7.6.q-28 ii lsb-base 10.2019051400 ii procps 2:3.3.15-2 pn sendmail-base <none> pn sendmail-cf <none> sendmail-bin recommends no packages. Versions of packages sendmail-bin suggests: ii libsasl2-modules 2.1.27+dfsg-1 ii openssl 1.1.1c-1 pn sasl2-bin <none> pn sendmail-doc <none>
