> > I am going to assume that version is from unstable (also known as potato) > > since my Samba is older. In that case, there was mention of a bug in that > > version of Samba that makes it need a 2.2.x kernel. The message at this > > address has a better explanation than I can give: > > So... I guess I need to downgrade to the version from Slink (I'm not > planning to move to 2.2 since some other stuff I use won't work with it). > Can I then mark it somehow as "non-upgradeable", so apt won't automatically > upgrade it later?
Maybe temporarily. The maintainer knows about it, it's listed at http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/40/40645.html I guess the web server is case sensitive, as I had to type it in with the capital B in Bugs to make it work. Darn picky thing. There might be an alternative to a downgrade. After looking at the bug report, it looks like the problem is when it's built on a system running a 2.2.x kernel and glibc2.1 but only if you're running a 2.0.x kernel. To me, that means it might work if you got the source and built it yourself. If you were using dselect, you could use = to put a hold on the package once you've downgraded it. I'm afraid I don't know much about apt. Could someone enlighten both of us as to the method of putting a hold on packages when apt is involved? Hope this helps, Patrick Olson
