Public bug reported:
I have the samba (folder sharing) service installed on my machine, but
have it turned off in System > Administration > Services. (I only want
it on in rare controlled occassions).
I just did an update which caused pam to be updated which decided to
restart all services using pam and in the process it restarted samba.
However samba was not running at the time, nor is it enabled in the gui
tool or in any /etc/rc?.d directory.
Package installation should really be obeying the service settings
rather than just blindly restarting everything potentially affected.
Additionally it should look to see if the service is already running.
If it isn't then there is no need to restart it!
This affects pam upgrades and likely other packages as well.
Additionally it is a minor security problem because the administrator
can have deliberately disabled services yet they can still end up
running.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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(gutsy) package installation doesn't honour service settings
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/138955
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