package smbclient 2:4.3.9+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.2 failed to install/upgrade: package smbclient is not ready for configuration cannot configure (current status 'half-installed')

[Matthijs Mekking]

matje@desktop:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
Release: 16.04

matje@desktop:~$ apt-cache policy smbclient
smbclient:
  Installed: 2:4.3.9+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.2
  Candidate: 2:4.3.9+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.3
  Version table:
     2:4.3.9+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.3 500
        500 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages
 *** 2:4.3.9+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.2 500
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2:4.3.8+dfsg-0ubuntu1 500
        500 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages

I expected a clean apt-get update, instead I received the error:

dpkg: error processing package smbclient (--configure):
 package smbclient is not ready for configuration
 cannot configure (current status 'half-installed')
Errors were encountered while processing:
 smbclient

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: smbclient 2:4.3.9+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-38.57-generic 4.4.19
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-38-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
AptOrdering:
 smbclient: Configure
 NULL: ConfigurePending
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Sep 27 10:21:33 2016
DpkgTerminalLog:
 dpkg: error processing package smbclient (--configure):
  package smbclient is not ready for configuration
  cannot configure (current status 'half-installed')
ErrorMessage: package smbclient is not ready for configuration cannot configure (current status 'half-installed')
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-09-04 (754 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2)
RelatedPackageVersions:
 nautilus 1:3.18.4.is.3.14.3-0ubuntu5
 gvfs 1.28.2-1ubuntu1~16.04.1
SambaClientRegression: Yes
SourcePackage: samba
Title: package smbclient 2:4.3.9+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.2 failed to install/upgrade: package smbclient is not ready for configuration cannot configure (current status 'half-installed')
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-08-08 (49 days ago)

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

I can't find too much in the log.
I've seen similar issues but with another version - so not dup'ing yet until we have seen a bit more of your case.

Since the auto attached logs aren't too good for now to spot the issue I'd ask you to provide some more.

Samba in that regard consists of nmbd and smbd.
I'd like to understand what is going on in your case, could you provide the output of:

service smbd status
service nmbd status

If nothing in the following files is confidential it would be great if you could also attach:
/var/log/samba/log.nmbd
/var/log/samba/log.smbd
/etc/samba/smb.conf

Also I realized that you updated yesterday, but just now a bigger update was released on 28th.
So please try upgrading to 4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 - and if that fails please provide the mentioned logs.

[Matthijs Mekking (q-dbuntu-1)]

Correct, solved after upgrading again

[Joshua Powers (powersj)]

Thanks for confirming it is solved!

I am marking this "Incomplete" given this appears to be solved. If this is not the case, please feel free to respond to the bug with whatever new information you have and change the bug status to "New".

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for samba (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]