Dear all,
First of all, I want to thank you so much for all your contributions so
far.
I have some contributions on my own in two fronts:
- After all, even after having triggered the error messages that brought
to this discussion, samba kept working and I felt no problem, until I
needed some changes which I had no way to do the way I was used to
- From release to release, Canonical introduces (I am afraid they're not
the only ones to do things this way) changes in the way some things are
done. Everybody knows the upheaval Unity brought to the desktop management
area. In our case, it was just a question of where to go when a change in
network sharing was needed, since Thunar (XFCE's file browser) was no
longer capable of dealing with that task (once Thunar was network-aware, I
no longer dealt with Nautilus). After some research (not a big deal,
anyway) it was clear a new piece of software was supposed to be installed
in the system (through apt-get or synaptic) to take care of those things.
Now, I have a Samba menu entry, under Applications | System. You're
supposed to use it to take care of your network sharing, permissions, and
so on.
Coming to issues as to when or even if updating to a new release, I'd like
to make a small contribution.
I used to agree with Mr. Attfield, no matter if you're 64 or 34 (and I
happen to be in my early 50's). However, I am waiting for the new 12.04 LTS
to be released in order to upgrade all my systems to it. It is not just a
question of fixing them, 'cause they aren't broken; it is a question of
having all the benefits of a long term support release in the PCs I want to
forget about.
Of course, I will keep the DM and WM of my preference, but that's the
beauty of Linux-based systems.
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Un saludo,
Kind regards,
Antonio Rodulfo
Ingeniero Industrial, Ingeniero de Desarrollo y Consultor de Proyectos
Industrial Engineer, Development Engineer and Project Consultant
2012/4/2 Guy Attfield 877...@bugs.launchpad.net
To answer your questions:
1. I don't know. I'm not a Linux/Ubuntu guru and (at
64) don't have the inclination to become one.
2. As far as I know, the only route back to 10.04.4 LTS
is to do a re-install from CD.
I let 10.04 install in a new partition (so I had XP, 11.10,
and 10.04 all in separate partitions) moved all data files
and sub-folders from the 11.10 partition to the 10.04
partition. After a couple of weeks, having backed up all my
data files, I deleted the 11.10 partition and resized the
new 10.04 partition.
I was tempted by rave reviews of Ubuntu 11 to break a
career-long rule of Never install the latest version of
anything unless there is an over-riding reason to do so.
which is a variation on If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
I've decided to wait until 2013 before even thinking about
'upgrading' to the next LTS version.
On 01/04/2012 22:10, Robin Young wrote:
After attempting to upgrade to Ubuntu 11.10 this morning I also
received this same notice of a problem with 'samba'.
After the upgrade continued, I receive a notice - something to the
effect of ~ the install has failed and the system may now be unstable.
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN ?
How do I RESTORE my computer ??
Do I need to Uninstall this upgrade - Is it POSSIBLE to UNinstall ?!?
Why is this only of 'medium importance' if my system is now unstable.
It was working well before.
Thanks.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/877852
Title:
samba failed to install when updating from ubuntu 11.04 to 11.10
Status in “samba” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Just used the update manager to update Ubuntu from 11.04 to 11.10 and
during process it gives two messages saying install will continue but
samba package may not be working when it finishes and after the
update finished it gives this final error, saying samba is not
working.
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
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Oct 18 23:08:45 2011
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: package samba is not ready for configuration
cannot configure (current status `half-installed')
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS Lucid Lynx - Release amd64
(20100816.1)
RelatedPackageVersions:
nautilus 1:3.2.0-0ubuntu5
gvfs 1.10.0-0ubuntu1
SambaClientRegression: Yes
SourcePackage: samba
Title: package samba 2:3.5.8~dfsg-1ubuntu2.3 failed to install/upgrade:
ErrorMessage: package samba is not ready for configuration cannot
configure (current status `half-installed')
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-18 (0 days ago)
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