broken package in Synaptic

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 1:02 AM, Albert Wagner <albertwagner at cox.net> wrote:
> I recently upgraded from 10.04 to 10.10 (actual upgrade, not new install).
> I have 3 machines on a local wireless and was attempting to set up simple
> file sharing.
> System->Preferences->Personal File Sharing
> "This feature cannot be enabled because the required packages are not
> installed on your system"
>
> It made no indication just what the required packages were. So I guessed.
>
> I thought that perhaps reinstalling "gnome-user-share 2.30.0" in Synaptic
> might help, however,
> that yielded:
> E: man-db: subprocess installed post-installation script killed by signal
> (Segmentation fault)
> E: samba: subprocess installed post-installation script killed by signal
> (Segmentation fault)
> E: libpam-smbpass: subprocess installed post-installation script returned
> error exit status 139
>
> Is this a known artifact of the upgrade?  I hesitate to file a bug report
> because I have usually done something stupid.

(In my system) System / Administration / Shared Folders is part of
"gnome-system-tools" not "gnome-user-share". It looks like in 10.10
"gnome-user-share" is optional, not part of a standard install.
Perhaps you might need Samba of sshfs.

L.


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