[Sderby] Error messages in Ubuntu Edgy

Ian Spratt ian.spratt at gmail.com
Mon Jan 29 17:24:51 GMT 2007


On 1/22/07, David Coulson <david.coulson6 at btopenworld.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Folks
> I have just gone through the motions of upgrading from Hoary right
> through to Edgy. However I keep getting the following error message from
> the Update manager.
>
> "invoke-rc.d initscript samba action "start" failed
> dpkg:error processing samba (--configure)
>
> Any suggestions would be welcome.
>
> Also my disc is rather full and I want to know how to identify any files
> from the earlier upgrades, that I can delete.
>
> Look forward to hearing from you.
>
> Cheers Dave Coulson
>
>
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There should be more information that that given out by dpkg
but from what is there, the first thing i would try is in a console as root,
typing:

dpkg --configure samba

and seeing what the outcome of that is

Ian
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