Re: Samba Wont Install-invoke-rc.d: initscript samba, action "start" failed

On 07/11/2007 09:38 AM, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
Can't install samba due to the issue shown in above subject title
using "aptitude install". The first install went with total success
but decided to purge/install due to some smb.conf issues not being
able to see ubuntu pc from WXP machine. Using Feisty up-to date.

The Apt error output shown below: ....... Setting up samba
(3.0.24-2ubuntu1.2) ... Generating /etc/default/samba... * Starting
Samba daemons...
[fail] invoke-rc.d: initscript samba, action "start" failed. dpkg:
error processing samba (--configure): subprocess post-installation
script returned error exit status 1 Setting up libcrypt-smbhash-perl
(0.12-1) ... Setting up smbldap-tools (0.9.2-3) ...

Errors were encountered while processing: samba E: Sub-process
/usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install.
Trying to recover: Setting up samba (3.0.24-2ubuntu1.2) ... *
Starting Samba daemons...
[fail] invoke-rc.d: initscript samba, action "start" failed. dpkg:
error processing samba (--configure): subprocess post-installation
script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while
processing: samba lchata@ubuntu:/etc$ sudo aptitude -f install

Using "sudo aptitude -f install" fix wanted to remove all too much
for my satisfaction including most all printer cups drivers, mplayer,
flash, clamav, pdf readers, etc, etc. About at the limits to solve
this issue without using the -f install thingy, any other
suggestions/fixes to try. Any help/suggesions/links most appreciated
as samba hasn't been nice to me or worked. TIA,


Leonard Chatagnier lenc5570@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


You could try 'aptitude reinstall' sometimes that works.

But because you did a purge, first I'd:

$ aptitude -D show samba

To show the depends. Perhaps reintalling the 'depends' first will fix
the problem.

Depends: samba-common (= 3.0.24-2ubuntu1.2), netbase, logrotate, libacl1
(>=2.2.11-1), libattr1 (>= 2.4.4-1), libc6 (>= 2.5-0ubuntu1), libcomerr2
(>= 1.33-3), libcupsys2 (>= 1.2.7), libgnutls13 (>= 1.4.0-0), libkrb53
(>= 1.4.2), libldap2 (>= 2.1.17-1), libpam0g (>= 0.76), libpopt0
(>=1.10), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1), debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0,
libpam-runtime (>= 0.76-13.1), libpam-modules, lsb-base (>= 3.0-6),
procps, update-inetd

Currently, the Samba Debian packages consist of the following:

samba - LanManager-like file and printer server for Unix.
samba-common - Samba common files used by both the server and the client.
smbclient - LanManager-like simple client for Unix.
swat - Samba Web Administration Tool
samba-doc - Samba documentation.
samba-doc-pdf - Samba documentation in PDF format.
smbfs - Mount and umount commands for the smbfs (kernels 2.2.x and above).
libpam-smbpass - pluggable authentication module for SMB/CIFS password
database
libsmbclient - Shared library that allows applications to talk to
SMB/CIFS serv
ers
libsmbclient-dev - libsmbclient shared libraries
winbind: Service to resolve user and group information from Windows NT
servers
python-samba: Python bindings that allow access to various aspects of Samba

It is possible to install a subset of these packages depending on your
particular needs. For example, to access other SMB/CIFS servers you
should only
need the smbclient and samba-common packages.

Added info:
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Feisty#Samba_Server


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