broken package in Synaptic

[Albert Wagner]

On 01/08/2011 04:28 PM, Lucio M Nicolosi wrote:
> 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.
>
> Thanks, Lucio, but SharedFolders and PersonalFileSharing are two different apps.  I no longer have a 10.04 installation, but I am guessing that PersonalFileSharing was leftover from 10.04.