broken package samba

Can you try:-

$ dpkg --configure samba

.and let us know the results?

Thank you, dear Alan, after doing dpkg --configure samba, I obtained:

dpkg: error processing samba (--configure):
 package samba is already installed and configured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 samba

It gives to you some light?

Thank you again!

On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 21:29 +0000, Alan Pope wrote:
> Your support request #3583 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ticket/3583
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> Alan Pope proposed the following answer:
> Can you try:-
>
> $ dpkg --configure samba
>
> .and let us know the results?
>
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Thank you, Kees, you did it.

And thanks to the best community on the space and beyond!

Alfonso (now smiling, hi!)

Wonderful Kees!!!

Thank you very much!!!

Problem solved. You hit it.

Thank you again,

Alfonso

P. S.: I must study so much things. You're leading me.

On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 02:22 +0000, Kees Cook wrote:
> Your support request #3583 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ticket/3583
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> Kees Cook proposed the following answer:
> The "prerm" script for samba is located at /var/lib/dpkg/info/samba.prerm
> For some reason, the package is failed to correctly stop the samba service. To try to solve this, I would do the following:
>
> sudo dpkg -P samba samba-common smbclient
> sudo rm -f /etc/rc*.d/*samba /etc/init.d/samba
>
> Then see if re-installing samba will work correctly:
>
> sudo apt-get install samba
>
> _______________________________________________________________________
> If this answers your request, please go to the following page to let us
> know that it is solved:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ticket/3583/+confirm?answer_id=2
>
> If you still need support, you can reply to this email or go to the
> following page to enter your feedback:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ticket/3583

I get the same error, but the solution above didn't work for me. Any ideas on how to resolve the problem.

thanks from me as well.

thanks also from me. the ubuntu community rock

Thanks a lot fixed my Samba package error Ubuntu Dapper on PPC.

Thanks a lot - this fix has also fixed my broken Samba problem.

Big thsnks to the Ubuntu community :-)

It worked for me (with some tweaking) and I was able to re-install Samba successfully. I am totally new to ubuntu/linux so I don’t understand why it worked but using Kees Cook’s solution

sudo dpkg -P samba samba-common smbclient
sudo rm -f /etc/rc*.d/*samba /etc/init.d/samba

The first command line worked fine. I didn’t realise the second line actually comprises of two commands (like I said – new to linux) and my machine didn’t like the ‘–f ‘ switch either (invalid option -- /)
 So I tried

sudo rm /etc/rc*.d/*samba

then

sudo rm /etc/init.d/samba

and it worked. Now I’m able to upgrade the system again – brilliant – many thanks.

hallelujah!

This solved a problem that plagued me for hours after i tried to re-install samba on my Debian NSLU2.
Thanks!!!!!!

I'm having a tough time - this does not work for me. I so completely hosed up a Samba install, but after following the directions I get

invoke-rc.d: initscript samba, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing samba (--configure):
 subprocess 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)

Any ideas?