[Sderby] Error messages in Ubuntu Edgy

[Dave Coulson]

Ian and Richard
Thank you very much for responding and I will try your suggestions. The 
funny thing is that the samba demons seem to be running, since they are 
always closed down when I shutdown.
Cheers David

Richard Smedley wrote:

>On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 16:46:25 David Coulson wrote:
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>>"invoke-rc.d initscript samba action "start" failed
>>dpkg:error processing samba (--configure)
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>>Any suggestions would be welcome.
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>You have a problem with Samba - but you need to provide a little more
>information. Presumably the upgraded version objects to something
>in the config file which was acceptible to the old version.
>However you could start with 
>dpkg-reconfigure -plow samba
>and see what messages you get.
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>>Also my disc is rather full and I want to know how to identify any
>>files from the earlier upgrades, that I can delete.
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>apt-get autoremove
>apt-get autoclean
>apt-get clean
>will all help, the last one is all you need - provided you don't
>need to hang on to any downloaded .debs. (see man apt-get)
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>You need to be root - on Ubuntu:
>sudo -s
>then enter your password
>Don't forget to 
>exit
>as root when you finish ;-)
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> - Richard
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