package samba 2:4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.6 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Franco Runza]

I don't know if the descriptions above apply

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: samba 2:4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-77.98-generic 4.4.59
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-77-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.5
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu May 11 07:01:18 2017
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-06-23 (689 days ago)
InstallationMedia: It
NmbdLog:

RelatedPackageVersions:
 dpkg 1.18.4ubuntu1.2
 apt 1.2.20
SambaServerRegression: Yes
SmbConfIncluded: Yes
SmbLog:

SourcePackage: samba
Title: package samba 2:4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.6 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-04-22 (384 days ago)
WindowsFailedConnect: Yes

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

Hi Franco,
I looked through the logs that were attached, but they didn't point me to a specific issue yet.
Just that the samba service isn't cleanly (re)starting on an related upgrade.

Since I didn't find any more in the logs, did you try as it wrote on the terminal and ran:
$ systemctl status smbd.service

If so did it point to any issue that can be worked on - mostly this is a broken configuration file or something like this.

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

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

Since it seems likely to me that this is a local configuration problem, rather than a bug in Ubuntu, I'm marking this bug as Incomplete.

If indeed this is 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 in Ubuntu rather than a problem specific to your system, and then change the bug status back to New.

[Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)]

You have an invalid configuration option in /etc/samba/smb.conf:

$ testparm ./smb.conf
Load smb config files from ./smb.conf
rlimit_max: increasing rlimit_max (1024) to minimum Windows limit (16384)
WARNING: The "syslog" option is deprecated
WARNING: Ignoring invalid value 'share' for parameter 'security'
Error loading services.

For this version of samba, "security = share" is no longer a valid setting. Valid values for the "security" parameter are auto, user, domain or ads.

Please fix the configuration setting and retry the operation.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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