Re: force-confmiss does not work
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas
<uhlar@fantomas.sk> wrote:
>
> I'm trying to reinstall smb.conf file as it came with samba-common.
>
> However, even when I reinstall samba-common (into which it seems to appear)
> with the force-confmiss option, it won't get reinstlled:
>
> # apt-get -o DPkg::Options::="--force-confmiss" --reinstall install
> samba-common
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not
> upgraded.
> 1 not fully installed or removed.
> After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
> Setting up samba-common (2:3.5.6~dfsg-3squeeze6) ...
> Not replacing deleted config file /etc/samba/smb.conf
> chmod: cannot access `/etc/samba/smb.conf': No such file or directory
> dpkg: error processing samba-common (--configure):
> subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> configured to not write apport reports
> Errors were encountered while
> processing:
> samba-common
>
> is this a problem of samba-common package?
> How to get the file reinstalled, amongst purging and reinstalling it?
It's because "/etc/samba/smb.conf" is installed by the postinst script
of samba-common. It's a copy of "/usr/share/samba/smb.conf".
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