I have a modified smb.conf. I did the diff, but found it confusing, so I requested a side by side diff. That didn't do as requested, it just showed the plain diff again.
So I chose the option to run a shell to examine the situation, but nothing happened. In fact my whole system update stopped at that point. Running ps ax I found the bash that was apparently blocked and killed that. A panel popped up saying the samba post install script had failed, and went on to list a whole bunch of other packages that also failed - notably wine and ubuntu-desktop. The upgrade continued on, and I'll see how broken it is now. Here's some output from the end of the system update terminal window: Processing triggers for libc6 ... ldconfig deferred processing now taking place Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-21-generic Errors were encountered while processing: samba-common winbind wine wine-dev smbclient smbfs samba swat ubuntu-desktop Traceback (most recent call last): File "logging/__init__.py", line 753, in emit self.flush() File "logging/__init__.py", line 731, in flush self.stream.flush() IOError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor Traceback (most recent call last): File "logging/__init__.py", line 753, in emit self.flush() File "logging/__init__.py", line 731, in flush self.stream.flush() IOError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor Traceback (most recent call last): File "logging/__init__.py", line 753, in emit self.flush() File "logging/__init__.py", line 731, in flush self.stream.flush() IOError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor sudo: unable to resolve host potter ** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1) ** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2) ** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1) ** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2) ** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1) ** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2) ** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1) ** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2) ** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1) ** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2) ** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1) ** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2) ** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1) ** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2) ** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1) ** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2) ** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1) ** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2) ** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1) ** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2) ** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1) ** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2) ** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1) ** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2) -- package samba-common 2:3.2.3-1ubuntu3 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/281569 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs