Spamassassin 3.4.0 update fails
During automated update spamassassin:all 3.4.0-1ubuntu2 failed to update.
error is:
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up spamassassin (3.4.0-1ubuntu2) ...
chown: invalid group: ‘debian-
dpkg: error processing package spamassassin (--configure):
I have been using spamd for some time as my group, not sure why this is trying to change it.
aptitude versions spamassassin
Package claws-mail-
p 3.9.3-1ubuntu1 trusty 500
Package claws-mail-
p 3.9.3-1ubuntu1 trusty 500
Package spamassassin:
p A 3.4.0-1ubuntu1 trusty 500
C A 3.4.0-1ubuntu2 trusty-updates 500
Package spamassassin-heatu:
p 3.02+20101108-2 trusty 500
Package spamassassin-
p 9ubuntu1 trusty 500
uname -a
Linux ip-10-184-55-157 3.13.0-43-generic #72-Ubuntu SMP Mon Dec 8 19:35:06 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty
dpkg --audit
The following packages have been unpacked but not yet configured.
They must be configured using dpkg --configure or the configure
menu option in dselect for them to work:
sa-compile Tools for compiling SpamAssassin rules into C
The following packages are only half configured, probably due to problems
configuring them the first time. The configuration should be retried using
dpkg --configure <package> or the configure menu option in dselect:
spamassassin Perl-based spam filter using text analysis
# apt-cache policy spamassassin
spamassassin:
Installed: 3.4.0-1ubuntu2
Candidate: 3.4.0-1ubuntu2
Version table:
*** 3.4.0-1ubuntu2 0
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
3.4.0-1ubuntu1 0
500 http://
apt-get --simulate install spamassassinReading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
spamassassin is already the newest version.
spamassassin set to manually installed.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
linux-
linux-
linux-
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Conf spamassassin (3.4.0-1ubuntu2 Ubuntu:
Conf sa-compile (3.4.0-1ubuntu2 Ubuntu:
Any suggestions on what to do to resolve? Thanks
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