Excerpts from Ramon Casha's message of Thu Sep 01 05:55:28 UTC 2011: > I cleared away all old samba logs, then ran the command "apt-get install > samba". This gave the following messages: > ======================== > root@garfield:/var/log/samba# apt-get install samba > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > samba is already the newest version. > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > 1 not fully installed or removed. > After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. > Do you want to continue [Y/n]? > Setting up samba (2:3.5.8~dfsg-1ubuntu2.3) ... > start: Job failed to start > invoke-rc.d: initscript nmbd, action "start" failed. > dpkg: error processing samba (--configure): > subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > Errors were encountered while processing: > samba > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > ======================== > The directory /var/log/samba remained empty > > I tried the command "start -v nmbd" but this only gave "start: Job > failed to start" > > /var/log/syslog showed: > Sep 1 07:53:18 garfield init: nmbd pre-start process (28123) terminated with > status 1 >
Interesting, could you do which testparm ls -l /usr/bin/testparm* dpkg -S /usr/bin/testparm.samba3 And paste the output? Thanks! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/833542 Title: samba 2:3.5.8~dfsg-1ubuntu2.3 failed to upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/833542/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
