This affected me also on two computers (64-bit). When manually stopping the smbd service the installation continued and Samba is now working. Now though Nautilus crashes each time I set shares straight from nautilus with extra permissions like let others write in the folder or guest access.
-- Samba process gets hung on maverick update https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/639768 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs