installation fails

[sean finney]

Binary package hint: samba

- from a default dapper install right click on a folder for sharing via smb
- it should automatically download and install samba
- samba installation fails with the following text:

Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package samba.
(Reading database ... 145282 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking samba (from .../samba_3.0.22-1ubuntu3.1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up samba (3.0.22-1ubuntu3.1) ...
Generating /etc/default/samba...
TDBSAM version too old (0), trying to convert it.
TDBSAM converted successfully.
account_policy_get: tdb_fetch_uint32 failed for field 1 (min password length), returning 0
account_policy_get: tdb_fetch_uint32 failed for field 2 (password history), returning 0
account_policy_get: tdb_fetch_uint32 failed for field 3 (user must logon to change password), returning 0
account_policy_get: tdb_fetch_uint32 failed for field 4 (maximum password age), returning 0
account_policy_get: tdb_fetch_uint32 failed for field 5 (minimum password age), returning 0
account_policy_get: tdb_fetch_uint32 failed for field 6 (lockout duration), returning 0
account_policy_get: tdb_fetch_uint32 failed for field 7 (reset count minutes), returning 0
account_policy_get: tdb_fetch_uint32 failed for field 8 (bad lockout attempt), returning 0
account_policy_get: tdb_fetch_uint32 failed for field 9 (disconnect time), returning 0
account_policy_get: tdb_fetch_uint32 failed for field 10 (refuse machine password change), returning 0
update-rc.d: warning: /etc/rc2.d/K09samba is not a link to ../init.d/samba or /etc/init.d/samba
update-rc.d: warning: /etc/rc3.d/K09samba is not a link to ../init.d/samba or /etc/init.d/samba
invoke-rc.d: dangling symlink: /etc/rc2.d/K09samba
dpkg: error processing samba (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 102
Errors were encountered while processing:
 samba
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up samba (3.0.22-1ubuntu3.1) ...
update-rc.d: warning: /etc/rc2.d/K09samba is not a link to ../init.d/samba or /etc/init.d/samba
update-rc.d: warning: /etc/rc3.d/K09samba is not a link to ../init.d/samba or /etc/init.d/samba
invoke-rc.d: dangling symlink: /etc/rc2.d/K09samba
dpkg: error processing samba (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 102
Errors were encountered while processing:
 samba

[sean finney (sean-stickybit)]

removing the broken symlinks and running apt-get -f install fixes the problem. here's where the broken symlinks point, btw:

client-158[~]12:50:05$ ls -l /etc/rc2.d/K09samba
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2006-07-25 20:59 /etc/rc2.d/K09samba -> /samba

looks like you have some kind of broken variable substitution in the maintscripts.

[Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis)]

Rejecting as duplicate