samba package broken

[gabrielle harrison and Paul van den Bergen]

Hi all,

after upgrading 5.10->6.06, i found samba broken... all attempts to fix  
have failed.

error message (e.g. in synaptic) is...

in terminal view

Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 142911 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace samba 3.0.22-1ubuntu3 (using  
.../samba_3.0.22-1ubuntu3.1_i386.deb) ...
invoke-rc.d: dangling symlink: /etc/rc2.d/S91samba
dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 102
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
invoke-rc.d: dangling symlink: /etc/rc2.d/S91samba
dpkg: error processing  
/var/cache/apt/archives/samba_3.0.22-1ubuntu3.1_i386.deb (--unpack):
  subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 102
Errors were encountered while processing:
  /var/cache/apt/archives/samba_3.0.22-1ubuntu3.1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:

in pop-up

E: /var/cache/apt/archives/samba_3.0.22-1ubuntu3.1_i386.deb: subprocess  
new pre-removal script returned error exit status 102

apt-get -f install does not help...



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