samba's package postinst script shouldn't return an error if samba daemon can't be started (e.g. if smb.conf file is incorrect or is removed)
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| samba (Baltix) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
| samba (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Mathias Gug | ||
Bug Description
since a recent update, every time I try to install packages or to upgrade :
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Paramétrage de samba (3.0.22-1ubuntu4.1) ...
* Starting Samba daemons... [fail]
invoke-rc.d: initscript samba, action "start" failed.
dpkg : erreur de traitement de samba (--configure) :
le sous-processus post-installation script a retourné une erreur de sortie d'état 1
Des erreurs ont été rencontrées pendant l'exécution :
samba
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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| description: | updated |
| Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas) wrote samba's package postinst script shouldn't return an error if samba daemon can't be started (for example if /etc/samba/smb.conf file is incorrect or is removed) | #1 |
| Henrik Nilsen Omma (henrik) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in samba: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Medium |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Changed in samba: | |
| status: | New → Invalid |
| Changed in samba: | |
| assignee: | nobody → shawarma |
| status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
| Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote | #3 |
| Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote | #4 |
| Changed in samba: | |
| assignee: | shawarma → mathiaz |
| Mathias Gug (mathiaz) wrote | #5 |
| Mathias Gug (mathiaz) wrote | #6 |
| Changed in samba: | |
| status: | In Progress → Fix Released |
It seems the problem is in samba's package postinst script - it returns an error if samba daemon can't be started (for example if /etc/samba/smb.conf file is incorrect or is removed):
tomas@mazius:~$ sudo rm /etc/samba/smb.conf
tomas@mazius:~$ sudo dpkg -i /var/cache/
Selecting previously deselected package samba.
(Reading database ... 156493 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking samba (from .../samba_
Setting up samba (3.0.22-1ubuntu4.1) ...
Generating /etc/default/
* Starting Samba daemons... [fail]
invoke-rc.d: initscript samba, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing samba (--install):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
samba
tomas@mazius:~$
Solution is return only warning "Samba daemon can't be started, please check your samba configuration" instead of returning error exit status 1
Btw, /etc/samba/smb.conf file is the config file of another package - samba-common, so, AFAIK, we are not following to the packaging policy when postinst script assumes, that we should have correct config file from another package.