At some point debian changed the user exim runs as. It used to be mail, which I thought was fine. Exim would have been ok too, but instead they picked Debian-exim. Yes. With a capital D. Because you're fixing a broken system, I'd suggest you try manually adding the Debian-exim user and group: adduser --system --home /var/spool/exim4 --shell /bin/false --no-create-home --group Debian-exim This should create something like: /etc/passwd: Debian-exim:x:116:116::/var/spool/exim4:/bin/false /etc/group: Debian-exim:x:116: Also, add the Debian-exim user to the mail group, just for compatability reasons: adduser Debian-exim mail You need more reliable hardware, Lindsay...
I get this error message...
dpkg: syntax error: unknown group `Debian-exim' in statusoverride file E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
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