[LBo] Problem removing and reinstalling Samba

[Lonnie Mullenix]

Tim,

You need to clean out the packages that are stored on the computer and
then you can download them fresh.  I think you will find them in;
/var/cache/apt/archives
Once in there, you can pretty well clean out any and all packages that
you want.  THEN, you would have to   apt-get update  and then try
re-installing.  Can't guarantee that that is will work, but I have done
that a time or two over the year.

Lonnie



On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 21:13 +0100, Tim wrote:
> I have had a problem with Samba for a couple of weeks now, basicly smbd won't 
> start and panics. This all happened after an update to 3.0.23c (via the 
> debian apt system). After a couple of days I could not access my shares via 
> windows any more. I have tried several mailing list and samba groups to 
> resolve this problem but to no avail, so I decided to night to remove samba 
> and reinstall it Unfortunately apt-get remove samba, will remove it but 
> installing it just installs it from the local source (not from the internet) 
> as a deselected package
> 
> Titan:/home/mit# apt-get install samba
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> The following NEW packages will be installed
> samba
> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B/3231kB of archives.
> After unpacking 7922kB of additional disk space will be used.
> Preconfiguring packages ...
> Selecting previously deselected package samba.
> (Reading database ... 127603 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking samba (from .../samba_3.0.23c-1_i386.deb) ...
> Setting up samba (3.0.23c-1) ...
> Starting Samba daemons: nmbd smbd.
> 
> And I still have the same problem as it is not starting smbd and give the same
> error in the smbd.log as before.
> 
> Is there anyway I can remove samba (and its associated files) from my system
> so that when I go to install it again it downloads new copies from the
> Internet??
> 
> I am running Debian testing with the 2.6.15 kernel
> 
> Tim