[Bug 993660] Re: package samba-common 2:3.5.8~dfsg-1ubuntu2.4 failed to install/upgrade: unable to open '/etc/dhcp3/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/samba.dpkg-new': Too many levels of symbolic links

2012-06-01 Thread arnuschky
I have the same problem: $ sudo apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed: samba-common The following packages will be upgraded: samba-common

[Bug 993660] Re: package samba-common 2:3.5.8~dfsg-1ubuntu2.4 failed to install/upgrade: unable to open '/etc/dhcp3/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/samba.dpkg-new': Too many levels of symbolic links

2012-06-01 Thread arnuschky
I figured it out: On my system, dhcp3 was a symlink pointing to dhcp (dunno why). Samba expects two different directories here. What I did: cd /etc rm dhcp3 cp -r dhcp dhcp3 apt-get -f install Works like a charm. Samba puts a script file in /etc/dhcp/dhclient- enter-hooks.d and links to that