package winbind (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 255

[William Bouchie]

I wasn't trying to install it. I was trying to uninstall it. I found it to be a package on, "Synaptic Package Manager" and it was listed as, "Not installed (residual conf) ". It came back as failed, and now I find myself here reporting it as a bug...

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: winbind (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-50.112-generic 2.6.32.61+drm33.26
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-50-generic i686
AptOrdering:
 odbcinst: Purge
 odbcinst1debian1: Purge
 rpm: Purge
 unixodbc: Purge
 winbind: Purge
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Jul 30 10:44:28 2013
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 255
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
RelatedPackageVersions:
 nautilus 1:2.30.1-0ubuntu1.2
 gvfs 1.6.1-0ubuntu1build1
SambaClientRegression: No
SourcePackage: samba
Title: package winbind (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 255

[Robie Basak (racb)]

From log:

Purging configuration files for winbind ...
Can't exec "insserv": No such file or directory at /usr/sbin/update-rc.d line 388.
dpkg: error processing winbind (--purge):
 subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 255

[Robie Basak (racb)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

It looks like you're missing the /etc/init.d/.legacy-bootordering file, which should have been created by the sysv-rc package. Please could you check if you have this file? What does the output of the command "dpkg-query -W sysv-rc" give you?

Assuming you haven't changed anything fundamental about the init system on your system, you might be able to fix the problem by typing "sudo touch /etc/init.d/.legacy-bootordering" at a Terminal, and then "sudo apt-get -f install".

But this does seem like a local configuration problem to me, rather than a bug.

If this is indeed a local configuration problem, you can find pointers to get help for this sort of problem here: http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community

Or if you believe that this is really a bug, then you may find it helpful to read "How to report bugs effectively" http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html. We'd be grateful if you would then provide a more complete description of the problem, explain why you believe this is a bug rather than a problem specific to your system, and then change the bug status back to New.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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