Whenever dpkg
runs, it checks that all user-entries in the /var/lib/dpkg/statoverride
file are in the /etc/passwd
, and if all entries are not found, it issues a warning.
Thus, it seems that your system doesn't have the user spread
anymore - either you (or some other admin) have removed the user or it has been removed along the removal of some program.
You can fix the situation either by
- re-creating the missing user
spread
(or re-installing the program that creates the user) - removing the offending row(s) from
/var/lib/dpkg/statoverride