Public bug reported: upstream report with proposed fix: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14918
Since the upgrade in 'focal' to 4.13 the samba domain backup script fails if there is a dangling symbolic link in any of the directories included in the backup. running backup on dirs: /var/lib/samba/private /var/lib/samba /etc/samba ERROR(<class 'FileNotFoundError'>): uncaught exception - [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/lib/samba/dfs/netlogon' File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/samba/netcmd/__init__.py", line 186, in _run return self.run(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/samba/netcmd/domain_backup.py", line 1105, in run if any(os.path.samefile(full_path, file) for file in all_files): File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/samba/netcmd/domain_backup.py", line 1105, in <genexpr> if any(os.path.samefile(full_path, file) for file in all_files): File "/usr/lib/python3.8/genericpath.py", line 100, in samefile s1 = os.stat(f1) $ apt-cache policy samba samba: Installed: 2:4.13.14+dfsg-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 Candidate: 2:4.13.14+dfsg-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 Version table: *** 2:4.13.14+dfsg-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 500 500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 Packages 500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 2:4.11.6+dfsg-0ubuntu1 500 500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages The backup is executed as: /usr/bin/samba-tool domain backup offline --targetdir="${BACKDIR}" ** Affects: samba (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: focal -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1952187 Title: backup command raises FileNotFoundError To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/1952187/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs