Unknown user in statoverride file

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I experienced the exact same problem you are having after using 'User Accounts' to remove user 'backuppc' - a user I manually configured for backups. Well I scrapped that route but didn't try to remove the user until a couple weeks later IE - today. I hadn't been experiencing any trouble until Update Manager found and tried to apply updates; the process would fail reading. Sorry I'm not able to answer your question, but this was the second result in google so I wanted to put a solution here for people.

I got a issue regarding mongo installation. I tried different solutions. But only thing that worked was editing the file manually. So,I removed the mongodb references from there and finally able to install the mongo completely without any obstacle. The error occurred mentioned at below. When I installed DelugeD, it created a user called debian-deluged. This resulted in the statoverride error when installing the package speedometer. I had a similar error and fixed it by first backing up the statoverride file and then removing all the lines containing the word postdrop.

Ubuntu Community Ask! Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Unknown user in statoverride file Ask Question. Asked 8 years, 4 months ago. Active 11 months ago. Viewed 73k times. At the weekend when querying existing users on the machine I noticed that the mediatomb user and group still existed so I used the command sudo deluser mediatomb to remove the user.

A day or so later I went to install htop sudo apt-get install htop but I found that I was getting an error: syntax error: unknown user 'mediatomb' in statoverride file. Improve this question. Braiam Aesir Aesir 2 2 gold badges 7 7 silver badges 9 9 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer.