On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 01:07, Seneca wrote: > 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.
It worked nicely, thank you very much for that. Best regards. Antoine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]