On 5/3/06, James He <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 5/3/06, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Things are getting a little bit complex now:
[...]
(3) Then I tried to do another reinstall of the samba package, while unexpected errors happen: # aptitude update # aptitude reinstall samba
[...]
Starting Samba daemons: nmbd smbd failed! invoke-rc.d: initscript samba, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing samba (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
I really don't know how to say this, but I tried another 'aptitude reinstall samba' a couple of minutes later and it went well this time. (Before I posted my last email, I tried several times, without any luck.) After 'dpkg-reconfigure samba' and '/etc/init.d/samba start', everything seems all right now. Thanks for your help, Steve . ------------ extra stuff ------------- I'm using this mirror: # cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free and I thought that the previous failure of samba reinstallation might be related to the synchronization of the server. But that's strange because I was using the latest version of samba (3.0.22-1) before I tried 'aptitude reinstall samba'. I really hope there is a theory which can explain this, for i've been fighting this wired thing for a whole day. -- Best regards, James He
