Will try. Is samba3sam.so part of a samba4 package? That may explain some of my problem. -Larry
-----Original Message----- From: Dale Schroeder [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 1:36 PM To: Larry and Sandi Miller; Samba Subject: Re: [Samba] failed to execute child process Sounds more like a corrupted dpkg than a Samba issue. I think you will need to determine what's broken there before you can fix the Samba install. Dale On 03/11/2010 12:06 AM, Larry and Sandi Miller wrote: > Long story short - very newbie on Linux. Loaded successfully Ubuntu9.10. > Intrigued by Samba, tried to load newest version. Screwed up something, so > tried to uninstall then re-install. > > Now getting "Could not launch samba" with message 'Failed to execute child > process "/usr/lib/samba/ldb/samba3sam.so" (no such file or directory). > > Version is 2:3.4.0-3ubuntu5.4 > > > > Noted directory does not exist on my machine. > > Tried aptitude reinstall samba. Message back 'samba is not currently > installed so it will not be reinstalled.' > > Tried aptitude install samba. This appeared to work, but no joy when I tried > to launch it. Still got the message "the program 'samba' is currently not > installed. You can install it by typing: sudo apt-get install samba4." > > I do have a samb4 package in archive, however do not understand why > samba3.xx appears to be installed, but isn't and I get the other noted > messages. I want to install samba3.xx > > Thanks, > > Larry > > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
