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"Asudo apt-get remove amavisd-new

Asked by Thomas

Yesterday they were working fine but today everytime I try to install anything using "Add/Remove Applications" or "Synaptic Package Manager" I get this:

dpkg: syntax error: unknown user 'amavis' in statoverride file
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:

I don't know what the heck "amavis" is or how it got to be a user. Thanks for any help.

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Best Carles Oriol (carlesoriol) said : 		#1

may be its a problem in amavisd-new

try:

sudo apt-get remove amavisd-new

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Thomas (jtx472) said : 		#2

Thank you for your reply but I got impatient after trying everything that was suggested to me on the forums without any success that I just re-installed Ubuntu. Sure is a lot easier than re-installing Windows! Ebverything is working fine now. Thanks again Carles.

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sumit (sumitdgarg) said : 		#3

Charles - i am facing the same problem and amavisd-new is not even installed on my system. Can you resolve the issue for me please
regards
sumit

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Claudia (bioclyde-gmail) said : 		#4

This bug says solved, but it didn't work with my current error. exact same message but the fix doesn't work. thanks

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Jeruvy (jeruvy) said : 		#5

Claudia,

This is a very old question that has been marked 'solved' hence most of us will never see your request as this is a very busy forum. Repost a NEW question and provide some details. Telling us of a bug (but not a url to the bug) and a error and message doesn't offer much to work with.

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Claudia (bioclyde-gmail) said : 		#6

Sorry,, I thought I had link this question with the answer that worked for my exact error. Question #125380 is what I followed because my error was unrecoverable. I will try linking again but I am not too sure. Thanks for your response jeruvy.
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The exact error I was getting was : "unrecoverable fatal error syntax error amavis in statoverride file sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned error code 2"

It was resolved in Question 125380 by Mark Rijckenberg 2010-09-14

Hope this helps remove any confusion I created, I appoligize.

Claudia