samba problem when installing

[richard]

after trying to update samba package, old package is now broken and new package
is not installed.

I have an error code 102 when he dpkg tries to execute the pre-removal script
for the new samba version and the new version script also doesn't work.

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

There is not enough information in your report to discern the cause of the
problem. Please send a complete transcript of the failed upgrade.

[richard (raraujo)]

more info:

I'm using kernell 2.6.8.1-3-686 version 2.6.8.1-16

I have an laptop acer TravelMate 661LMi
Intel Centrino 1.4GHz

I can also tell you that I have installed VMware Workstation 4.5.2 build-8848
for Linux

Here are the errors that I have in the synaptic terminal:

Préparation du remplacement de samba 3.0.7-1ubuntu5 (en utilisant
.../samba_3.0.7-1ubuntu6_i386.deb) ...
invoke-rc.d: dangling symlink: /etc/rc2.d/K09samba
dpkg : avertissement - ancien script pre-removal a retourné un code d'erreur de
sortie 102
dpkg - tentative d'éxecution du script du nouveau packet à la place...
invoke-rc.d: dangling symlink: /etc/rc2.d/K09samba
dpkg : erreur de traitement de
/var/cache/apt/archives/samba_3.0.7-1ubuntu6_i386.deb (--unpack) :
le processus nouveau script pre-removal a retourné une erreur de sortie d'état 102

My actual samba package is broken and I cannot remove it or repair it or upgrade it.

Hope this is ok for you, I don't know much about linux and ubuntu, I am a new
user since about 2 weeks.

Please let me know if you need some more info.

Many thanks for your best support.

Best regards,

Richard

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 9208.

[Ivo (ivodaniel-alves)]

Hi,

I've got this problem as well until 5 minutes ago!

Please check this:

ls -l /etc/rcs.d/k09samba

if the output is: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2007-04-03 16:16 /etc/rc2.d/K09samba -> /samba

remove K09samba because this link can not "point" to samba (crazy sh#"$%t) :

rm /etc/rc2.d/k09samba

and it's done, now you can upgrade, remove samba ... etc etc!