package winbind 2:3.6.3-2ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[juri]

Setting up winbind (2:3.6.3-2ubuntu2) ...
 * Starting the Winbind daemon winbind [fail]
invoke-rc.d: initscript winbind, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing winbind (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libpam-winbind:
 libpam-winbind depends on winbind (= 2:3.6.3-2ubuntu2); however:
  Package winbind is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libpam-winbind (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                          Errors were encountered while processing:
 winbind
 libpam-winbind

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: winbind 2:3.6.3-2ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Apr 13 22:03:24 2012
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
SourcePackage: samba
Title: package winbind 2:3.6.3-2ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-03-29 (15 days ago)

[juri (eng-juri)]

sudo dpkg --configure winbind
Setting up winbind (2:3.6.3-2ubuntu2) ...
 * Starting the Winbind daemon winbind [fail]
invoke-rc.d: initscript winbind, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing winbind (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 winbind

[Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar)]

Hi juri. It looks like winbind is having a hard time starting up on your system.

Can you maybe try running '/usr/sbin/winbindd' as root and pasting the output here?

[juri (eng-juri)]

root@user-Veriton:~# locate winbindd
/usr/sbin/winbindd
/usr/share/man/man8/winbindd.8.gz
/var/cache/samba/winbindd_cache.tdb
/var/lib/samba/winbindd_idmap.tdb
/var/log/samba/log.winbindd
/var/log/samba/log.winbindd-idmap
/var/log/samba/log.winbindd-idmap.old
/var/log/samba/log.winbindd.1.gz
/var/log/samba/log.winbindd.2.gz
/var/log/samba/log.winbindd.3.gz
/var/log/samba/log.winbindd.4.gz
/var/log/samba/log.winbindd.5.gz
/var/log/samba/log.winbindd.6.gz
/var/log/samba/log.winbindd.7.gz
/var/log/samba/cores/winbindd
root@user-Veriton:~# ./var/log/samba/cores/winbindd
-su: ./var/log/samba/cores/winbindd: No such file or directory
root@user-Veriton:~# /usr/sbin/winbindd
root@user-Veriton:~# ./usr/sbin/winbindd
-su: ./usr/sbin/winbindd: No such file or directory
root@user-Veriton:~# cd /usr/sbin/
root@user-Veriton:/usr/sbin# ./winbindd
root@user-Veriton:/usr/sbin#

[Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar)]

Ahh, perhaps after running winbindd this check the end of /var/log/samba/* and /var/log/syslog for any error messages explaining why it isn't starting? (sudo tail /var/log/syslog).

[juri (eng-juri)]

sudo tail -f /var/log/samba/*

==> /var/log/samba/log.winbindd <==
[2012/04/24 11:02:57, 0] winbindd/winbindd.c:1336(main)
  winbindd version 3.6.3 started.
  Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2011
[2012/04/24 11:02:57, 0] winbindd/winbindd.c:1340(main)
  error opening config file

[James Page (james-page)]

Hi Juri

For some reason winbindd can't locate/open is configuration file.

Please can you check for that /etc/samba/smb.conf actually exists and has the following permissions:

  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12464 May 2 10:27 /etc/samba/smb.conf

Thanks

[juri (eng-juri)]

I did this:
root@user-Veriton:~# touch /etc/samba/smb.conf
root@user-Veriton:~# cat /etc/samba/smb.conf
root@user-Veriton:~# apt-get install winbind
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
winbind is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Setting up winbind (2:3.6.3-2ubuntu2.1) ...
 * Starting the Winbind daemon winbind [ OK ]
Setting up libpam-winbind (2:3.6.3-2ubuntu2.1) ...
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/locale: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/man: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/gnome/help: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/omf: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML: 0 KiB

Total disk space freed by localepurge: 0 KiB

root@user-Veriton:~# apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  ia32-libs-multiarch:i386 libqscintilla2-dev tora
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
root@user-Veriton:~#

everything is fine now.

Thank you.

[Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar)]

Thanks so much for taking the time to get back to us Juri. I'll go ahead and close the bug report.