I know what's happening because I went throught this problem before: the /var/lib/dpkg/info/samba.prerm script stops any nmbd and smbd that could be running. It does this by calling start-stop-daemon but the script does not consider the case of no daemons running.
To solve the problem just edit /var/lib/dpkg/info/samba.prerm and add the option --oknodo to the invocation of start-stop-daemon. This option makes start-stop-daemon return a succesful code even in the case of no daemons running, so the prerm script does not fail. This is definitely a bug in the Samba package that the new maintainer should take care of. E.- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : I have the samba package installed but want to remove it, everytime i try I : get the following: : : Shadow:~# dpkg --remove samba : (Reading database ... 14226 files and directories currently installed.) : Removing samba ... : dpkg: error processing samba (--remove): : subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 : Errors were encountered while processing: : samba -- Eloy A. Paris Information Technology Department Rockwell Automation de Venezuela Telephone: +58-2-9432311 Fax: +58-2-9431645 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
