Software update problem

[Bob]

** Reply to message from Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com> on Mon, 24 Oct
2016 00:02:52 +0200

I sent this last night but it came back because the email was too large.  I
have ziped the command output and am sending it again.


> On Sun, 23 Oct 2016 14:21:44 -0700, Bob wrote:
> >Setting up samba (2:4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.1) ...
> >insserv: script ups-monitor: service ups-monitor already provided!
> >Job for smbd.service failed because the control process exited with
> >error code. See "systemctl status smbd.service" and "journalctl -xe"
> >for details. invoke-rc.d: initscript smbd, action "start" failed.
> 
> That's most likely caused by a bad package.
> 
> However, it doesn't harm to do what is suggested by the output, to run
> 
>   sudo apt autoremove

Got this error at the end of autoremove.

Errors were encountered while processing:
 samba
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I did not continue with the next commands.


> to get rid of the automatically installed and no longer required
> packages. After that run
> 
>   sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade
> 
> again. I doubt that it will not fail again, most likely you need to file
> a bug against the samba package
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs .
> 
> It likely is possible to work around the issue.

-- 
Robert Blair


You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. -- Adrian Rogers
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