package samba-common 2:3.4.0-3ubuntu5.1 failed to install/upgrade:

[Antony Jones]

Binary package hint: samba

As found when trying to update from Ubuntu 9.04 to Ubuntu 9.10.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Nov 26 11:29:23 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ErrorMessage:
 ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: samba-common 2:3.4.0-3ubuntu5.1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.28-16.57-server
SourcePackage: samba
Title: package samba-common 2:3.4.0-3ubuntu5.1 failed to install/upgrade:
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-16-server i686

[Antony Jones (wrh)]

This was because I had deleted smb.conf to make some other product work.

The solution as suggested by aptitude was:

  sudo cp /usr/share/samba/smb.conf /etc/samba/smb.conf
  sudo dpkg --configure -a

However this did moderately break my upgrade so I suggest that a more robust way of dealing with this might be implemented?