<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><snip><snip><br> Leonard Chatagnier wrote:<br>> Can't install samba due to the issue shown in above subject title <br>> using "aptitude install". The first install went with total success <br>> but decided to purge/install due to some smb.conf issues not being <br>> able to see ubuntu pc from WXP machine.<br>> Using Feisty up-to date.<br>><br>> The Apt error output shown below:<br>> .......<br>> Setting up samba (3.0.24-2ubuntu1.2) ...<br>> Generating /etc/default/samba...<br>> * Starting Samba <br>> daemons... <br>> [fail]<br>> invoke-rc.d: initscript samba, action "start" failed.<br>> dpkg: error processing samba (--configure):<br>> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1<br>> Setting up libcrypt-smbhash-perl (0.12-1)
...<br>> Setting up smbldap-tools (0.9.2-3) ...<br>><br>> Errors were encountered while processing:<br>> samba<br>> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)<br>> A package failed to install. Trying to recover:<br>> Setting up samba (3.0.24-2ubuntu1.2) ...<br>> * Starting Samba <br>> daemons... <br>> [fail]<br>> invoke-rc.d: initscript samba, action "start" failed.<br>> dpkg: error processing samba (--configure):<br>> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1<br>> Errors were encountered while processing:<br>> samba<br>> lchata@ubuntu:/etc$ sudo aptitude -f install<br>><br>> Using "sudo aptitude -f install" fix wanted to remove all too much for <br>> my satisfaction including most all printer cups drivers, mplayer, <br>> flash, clamav, pdf readers, etc, etc.<br>> About at the limits to solve this issue
without using the -f install <br>> thingy, any other suggestions/fixes to try. Any help/suggesions/links <br>> most appreciated as samba hasn't been nice to me or worked.<br>> TIA,<br>><br>><br>> Leonard Chatagnier<br>> lenc5570@sbcglobal.net <br>Just out of curiosity have you run apt-get update recently?? Also, You <br>said that you had done a remove/purge of the samba package??? are you <br>using aptitude, synaptic, or apt-get from the command line??? <br><br>Yes, did update just before the purge/install. Did all with aptitude. But do use the gui's synaptic, adept(kubuntu-desktop) depending on what's convient at the time. Aptitude update has been acting up lately for me with very long pause on a security mirror; don't remember which. Expect the mirroe was having trouble as my downloads are usually fast on my dsl. Anyway, reinstalling samba-common fixed everything and don't know why aptitude missed only that
depends. See my reply to NoOp as I still have samba setup issues.<br><br>thanks for you input,<br></snip></snip></blockquote><BR><BR>Leonard Chatagnier<br>lenc5570@sbcglobal.net