[Bug 526418] Re: Samba-common-bin installed post-installation script fails with error 2

[Jim MacKenzie]

I had an identical problem on a Karmic laptop.  The system is prone to
overheating and shut down automatically during an update (likely while
installing a samba update).  I got the same errors.

What I did to solve the problem was to copy the following files from a
working Ubuntu system (I used my Karmic server):

/var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/nmblookup
./net
./testparm

(I figured this out by fixing one, then trying to aptitude safe-upgrade,
and following the next complaint :) ).

Once I replaced all three, samba properly installed and the problem
disappeared.

The files contained text garbage unrelated to the original file
contents.  It was some sort of a disk corruption issue, likely caused by
the abrupt powerdown, but the fix was a little unintuitive.

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Samba-common-bin installed post-installation script fails with error 2
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/526418
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