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package samba 2:3.5.8~dfsg-1ubuntu2.3 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 2

Bug #870066 reported by Kris OMealy on 2011-10-07

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #862129: samba postrm depends on packages not guaranteed to be configured. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	samba (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

I did have a power outage while upgrading to 11.10 beta2, so that may be the culprit. I was able to seemingly recover the update by typing "sudo dpkg --configure -a" from booting into a previous version of ubuntu.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: samba 2:3.5.8~dfsg-1ubuntu2.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Oct 6 23:59:58 2011
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 2
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
NmbdLog:

OtherFailedConnect: Yes
SambaServerRegression: Yes
SmbConfIncluded: Yes
SmbLog:

SourcePackage: samba
Title: package samba 2:3.5.8~dfsg-1ubuntu2.3 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 2
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-07 (0 days ago)

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Kris OMealy (komealy) wrote on 2011-10-07:

Dependencies.txt Edit (2.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
SMBConf.txt Edit (12.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
SambaInstalledVersions.txt Edit (363 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
VarLogDistupgradeAptclonesystemstatetargz.gz Edit (667.5 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeAptlog.gz Edit (8.1 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeApttermlog.gz Edit (12.4 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeHistorylog.gz Edit (25.9 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeLspcitxt.gz Edit (624 bytes, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeMainlog.gz Edit (17.1 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeScreenlog0.gz Edit (216.6 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeSystemstatetargz.gz Edit (434.8 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeTermlog.gz Edit (13.3 KiB, application/x-gzip)

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Robie Basak (racb) wrote on 2011-10-07:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 862129, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.