Ubuntu
spread package

  1. Bug #766750
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 766750

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Roel van de Kraats (lp-4) wrote :

I ran into this problem as well. The problem seems to be in the 'postrm' script, which first removes the 'spread' user and then tries to run dpkg-statoverride. This results in:

# dpkg --purge spread
(Reading database ... 40112 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing spread ...
Purging configuration files for spread ...
dpkg-statoverrides: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
 syntax error: unknown user 'spread' in statoverride file
dpkg-statoverrides: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
 syntax error: unknown user 'spread' in statoverride file

The fix is to let debian/spread.postrm first call dpkg-statoverride and then call userdel.