Comment 5 for bug 546896

paul@paul-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get autoremove
[sudo] password for paul:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up samba-common-bin (2:3.4.0-3ubuntu5.6) ...
update-alternatives: error: /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/nmblookup corrupt: invalid status
dpkg: error processing samba-common-bin (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 samba-common-bin
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
 Thierry Carrez has deemed this error to be a duplicate, but it is not. Perhaps it is similar, but it is not the same. I noticed he has not posted a solution to this or the similar bug reports.