Comment 3 for bug 963662

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Mark Finch (markfinch) wrote :

It still affects RVM on my system. This just occurred (for a few weeks, but not a big rush for me)

$ sudo apt-get install ruby-rvm

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  ruby-rvm
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 709 kB of archives.
After this operation, 2,257 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe ruby-rvm all 1.6.9-0ubuntu2 [709 kB]
Fetched 709 kB in 28s (25.2 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package ruby-rvm.
(Reading database ... 214836 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking ruby-rvm (from .../ruby-rvm_1.6.9-0ubuntu2_all.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up ruby-rvm (1.6.9-0ubuntu2) ...
dpkg-statoverride: error: syntax error: unknown group 'admin' in statoverride file
dpkg: error processing ruby-rvm (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 ruby-rvm
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

$ sudo apt-get upgrade

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Setting up ruby-rvm (1.6.9-0ubuntu2) ...
dpkg-statoverride: error: syntax error: unknown group 'admin' in statoverride file
dpkg: error processing ruby-rvm (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 ruby-rvm
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)