Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 1409-1] New samba packages fix several vulnerabilities

Noah Meyerhans ha scritto:
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 11:10:09AM +0100, Alfio wrote:
>
>> (Reading database ... 360460 files and directories currently installed.)
>> Preparing to replace samba 3.0.24-6etch4 (using
>> samba_3.0.24-6etch5_i386.deb) ...
>> invoke-rc.d: dangling symlink: /etc/rc2.d/S91samba
>> dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 102
>> dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
>> invoke-rc.d: dangling symlink: /etc/rc2.d/S91samba
>> dpkg: error processing samba_3.0.24-6etch5_i386.deb (--install):
>> subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 102
>> Errors were encountered while processing:
>> samba_3.0.24-6etch5_i386.deb
>>
>> I just downloaded through apdet-notifier and the installation went wrong.
>> Then I tried to remove the broken package and install by hand, but it
>> failed
>>
>
> It looks like, at some point in the past, you deleted /etc/init.d/samba.
> This is preventing samba's postinstall script from working, because it
> expects to be able to call it.
>
> If you reinstall samba_3.0.24-6etch5_i386.deb using "dpkg -i
> --force-confmiss" the file should be recreated. Note that this will
> recreate any other conffiles that you might have deleted.
>
> noah
>
>

Thanks, I have already fixed this.
It seems that after every upgrade of samba, the symlinks do not point to the correct targets (i.e from /etc/rcX.d/ to /etc/init.d/samba). I just fixed this by hand and now it is ok.

Alfio

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