[Sheflug] Debian Upgrade Problem

[Richard <richard [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

Had a problem with Postfix.  I was altering some of the default values 
to the ones that I prefer myself.  For some reason when I re-started it 
an error message came up on the screen which didn't make a lot of sense. 
To cut a long story short I thought it might be better to re-install 
postfix.  Tried it and this is what came back......

home:/etc/apt# apt-get update
Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Release
Hit ftp://ftp.kde.org stable/main Packages
Hit ftp://ftp.kde.org stable/main Release
Hit ftp://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main Packages
Hit ftp://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main Release
Hit ftp://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/non-free Packages
Hit ftp://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/non-free Release
Hit ftp://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/contrib Packages
Hit ftp://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/contrib Release
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
home:/etc/apt# apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
 postfix: Depends: postfix-ldap (= 1.1.11-0.woody3) but it is not installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
home:/etc/apt# apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
 adduser libdb4.1 postfix postfix-pcre
The following NEW packages will be installed:
 libdb4.1
3 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 488  not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/1086kB of archives. After unpacking 1212kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Preconfiguring packages ...
dpkg: syntax error: unknown user `amavis' in statusoverride file
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)



How do I get out of this and re-install postfix ?  Tried --fix-missing 
and that doesn't work either.

Thanks


Richard


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