Samba Wont Install-invoke-rc.d: initscript samba, action "start" failed

[NoOp]

On 07/11/2007 09:38 AM, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> Can't install samba due to the issue shown in above subject title
> using "aptitude install".  The first install went with total success
> but decided to purge/install due to some smb.conf issues not being
> able to see ubuntu pc from WXP machine. Using Feisty up-to date.
> 
> The Apt error output shown below: ....... Setting up samba
> (3.0.24-2ubuntu1.2) ... Generating /etc/default/samba... * Starting
> Samba daemons...
> [fail] invoke-rc.d: initscript samba, action "start" failed. dpkg:
> error processing samba (--configure): subprocess post-installation
> script returned error exit status 1 Setting up libcrypt-smbhash-perl
> (0.12-1) ... Setting up smbldap-tools (0.9.2-3) ...
> 
> Errors were encountered while processing: samba E: Sub-process
> /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install.
> Trying to recover: Setting up samba (3.0.24-2ubuntu1.2) ... *
> Starting Samba daemons...
> [fail] 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 lchata at ubuntu:/etc$ sudo aptitude -f install
> 
> Using "sudo aptitude -f install" fix wanted to remove all too much
> for my satisfaction including most all printer cups drivers, mplayer,
> flash, clamav, pdf readers, etc, etc. About at the limits to solve
> this issue without using the -f install thingy, any other
> suggestions/fixes to try.  Any help/suggesions/links most appreciated
> as samba hasn't been nice to me or worked. TIA,
> 
> 
> Leonard Chatagnier lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
> 

You could try 'aptitude reinstall' sometimes that works.

But because you did a purge, first I'd:

$ aptitude -D show samba

To show the depends. Perhaps reintalling the 'depends' first will fix
the problem.

Depends: samba-common (= 3.0.24-2ubuntu1.2), netbase, logrotate, libacl1
(>=2.2.11-1), libattr1 (>= 2.4.4-1), libc6 (>= 2.5-0ubuntu1), libcomerr2
(>= 1.33-3), libcupsys2 (>= 1.2.7), libgnutls13 (>= 1.4.0-0), libkrb53
(>= 1.4.2), libldap2 (>= 2.1.17-1), libpam0g (>= 0.76), libpopt0
(>=1.10), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1), debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0,
libpam-runtime (>= 0.76-13.1), libpam-modules, lsb-base (>= 3.0-6),
procps, update-inetd

Currently, the Samba Debian packages consist of the following:

 samba - LanManager-like file and printer server for Unix.
 samba-common - Samba common files used by both the server and the client.
 smbclient - LanManager-like simple client for Unix.
 swat - Samba Web Administration Tool
 samba-doc - Samba documentation.
 samba-doc-pdf - Samba documentation in PDF format.
 smbfs - Mount and umount commands for the smbfs (kernels 2.2.x and above).
 libpam-smbpass - pluggable authentication module for SMB/CIFS password
database
 libsmbclient - Shared library that allows applications to talk to
SMB/CIFS serv
 ers
 libsmbclient-dev - libsmbclient shared libraries
 winbind: Service to resolve user and group information from Windows NT
servers
 python-samba: Python bindings that allow access to various aspects of Samba

 It is possible to install a subset of these packages depending on your
 particular needs. For example, to access other SMB/CIFS servers you
should only
 need the smbclient and samba-common packages.

Added info:
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Feisty#Samba_Server