Public bug reported:
I broke the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" life rule.
I'm a Linux neophyte who built a 'silent' home office 'server' to unload
a creaking WinXP laptop used for both home and business and to provide
an 'always-on' Internet facility. The idea, which was starting to work
well, was to transfer everything onto the Linux server (running 24/7)
leaving the laptop with just synced copies of client files plus a few
legacy Windows applications for which I have yet to find suitable Linux
counter-parts.
Enabled automatic release upgrade (as explained in the relevant notes) -
from a pretty standard 10.04.3 LTS installation that was working
perfectly. The successive upgrades were incredibly lengthy (over 3
day/nights), stopping repeatedly with incomprehensible questions about
replacing various system files about which a non-expert will know
nothing. Some idiot decided that failure of a user to respond promptly
to one question should be punished by an imitation of a fire alarm - not
funny at 2:30 am this morning! In a commercial environment the
consequences could have been far more serious.
Apart from samba, I do not yet know what else doesn't work.
I do appreciate that Ubuntu is free and depends on the hard work of
volunteers. From my experience, it is clear that updates across
intermediate releases is a complete non-starter and should be actively
DIScouraged in the documentation instead of the impression being given
that it's a painless way of moving to a later release.
ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: samba 2:3.5.8~dfsg-1ubuntu2.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-13.53-generic 2.6.38.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-13-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Jan 4 22:16:53 2012
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: package samba is not ready for configuration
cannot configure (current status `half-installed')
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20110211.1)
NmbdLog:
become_local_master_fail2: failed to register name WORKGROUP<1d> on subnet
192.168.0.2. Failed to become a local master browser.
standard_fail_register: Failed to register/refresh name WORKGROUP<1d> on
subnet 192.168.0.2
OtherFailedConnect: Yes
SambaServerRegression: Yes
SmbConfIncluded: Yes
SmbLog:
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 2012-01-04 (0 days ago)
** Affects: samba (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-package i386 oneiric
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/912212
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') - version upgrade from
10.04 LTS to 10.10 to 11.04. various errors flashed up during upgrade
from 10.04 to 10.10
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