Gregory Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I took a new CDrom (2.1) and did re-deselect, which did a lot of upgrades 
> to various stuff.
> 
> The end result is that everything seems OK, except a remaining dependency 
> problem, based on Samba, but it won't remove, and it depends on 
> libpam-util, and thus I cannot remove libpam-util (which is not 
> configured), and which is the reported error.
> 
> running dpkg --pending --remove ...
> (Reading database ... 18478 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing samba ...
> dpkg: error processing samba (--remove):
>   subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of libpam0:
>   samba depends on libpam0 (>= 0.56-1).
> dpkg: error processing libpam0 (--remove):
>   dependency problems - not removing
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of libpam-util:
>   libpam0 depends on libpam-util (>= 0.56-2).
> dpkg: error processing libpam-util (--remove):
>   dependency problems - not removing
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>   samba
>   libpam0
>   libpam-util

     Try `dpkg --force-depends --purge libpam0 libpam-util', then do
apt-get install samba

Bob
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