Ran automatic updates. Left system for a while, on return it had tried to reboot & hung, had to recover

[Norman Crabbe]

Binary package hint: samba

Tried to restart but eventually did a recovery reboot. This went to command line, asked to restart. I'm ashamed to say that I cannot remember the root password, so forced computer shutdown on power button. Restarted, the system did fsck, then on logging on there was a message briefly to the effect that an upgrade had failed, this led me down the path to Launchpad. Hopefully the data collected tells you which package failed.

Ubuntu 9.10

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Dec 10 23:22:43 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ErrorMessage:
 ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Package: winbind 2:3.4.0-3ubuntu5.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.53-generic
SourcePackage: samba
Title: package winbind 2:3.4.0-3ubuntu5.1 failed to install/upgrade:
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic i686

[Norman Crabbe (norman-crabbe)]

Looking at the reported detail above reminds me that on recovery the error to winbind occurred, & is probably not the cause of the original problem.

[Norman Crabbe (norman-crabbe)]

More information:- This all started last night when I saw a warning triangle in the top panel. I clicked on it, this caused update manager to run - this was not an "automatic" update notification as I originally described. I think the update manager then gave a long list of (greyed out) applications - I really don't remember whether the list came up first or after I asked it to check. I then requested install and then I left the system for a while.

I have now rediscovered sudo su.