I had the same error(Bug #873722 ) when upgrading from 11.04 to 11.10. After
this error the upgrade was terminated and the upgrade program notified me that
my upgraded system might be unstable. I did a restart and so far everything
works fine.
I even managed to finish installing Samba. When I
Public bug reported:
Error occurred during the upgrade from Ubuntu 11.04 to 11.10.
ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: samba 2:3.5.8~dfsg-1ubuntu2.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.50-generic 2.6.38.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/873722
Title:
package samba 2:3.5.8~dfsg-1ubuntu2.3 failed to install/upgrade:
ErrorMessage: package samba is not ready for
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 872987 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/872987
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 872987
package samba 2:3.5.8~dfsg-1ubuntu2.3 failed to install/upgrade:
ErrorMessage: package samba is not ready for configuration cannot configure