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. -- 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. > > > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to a > duplicate bug report (881446). > 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) > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/877852/+subscriptions > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to samba in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/877852 Title: samba failed to install when updating from ubuntu 11.04 to 11.10 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/877852/+subscriptions -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs
