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Samba update error persists
Posted by rob on Fri 23 Nov 2007 at 20:00
Well, for me anyway.
To summarize: You attempt to install Debian Etch security updates for the samba suite; all programs install except for samba; aptitude tells you so and complains that it cannot configure swat because an old version of samba is installed and that rc2.d and rc3.d symlinks for samba are dangling; you check the links and you observe that, somehow, the system sees them as executables; you remove the links and do: ln -s ../init.d/samba S91samba for rc2.d and rc3.d and 'aptitude -f install samba'(you may omit '-f', aptitude already knows :0 ); all is well until the next samba update.
This has been reported as Bug 54385, three years ago. It is interesting that it seems to affect only a few scattered people within a distro group. I never had a problem with samba until its last security update in Etch, several months ago, and again this morning. The Bug has also appeared in Debian-based distros. Not a real big deal but it is annoying.
To summarize: You attempt to install Debian Etch security updates for the samba suite; all programs install except for samba; aptitude tells you so and complains that it cannot configure swat because an old version of samba is installed and that rc2.d and rc3.d symlinks for samba are dangling; you check the links and you observe that, somehow, the system sees them as executables; you remove the links and do: ln -s ../init.d/samba S91samba for rc2.d and rc3.d and 'aptitude -f install samba'(you may omit '-f', aptitude already knows :0 ); all is well until the next samba update.
This has been reported as Bug 54385, three years ago. It is interesting that it seems to affect only a few scattered people within a distro group. I never had a problem with samba until its last security update in Etch, several months ago, and again this morning. The Bug has also appeared in Debian-based distros. Not a real big deal but it is annoying.