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On 07/15/2017 08:09 AM, Jason
Wittlin-Cohen wrote:
I, too, have been having problems that seem to point to samba. Note that I am still running Jessie. If I run 'sudo aptitude update' followed by 'sudo aptitude upgrade' I get the following: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following packages will be upgraded: python-samba The following partially installed packages will be configured: samba samba-common-bin 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/1,016 kB of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges", line 29, in <module> import anydbm ImportError: No module named 'anydbm' (Reading database ... 336173 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../python-samba_2%3a4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u7+b1_amd64.deb ... File "/usr/bin/pyclean", line 63 except (IOError, OSError), e: ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax dpkg: warning: subprocess old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: trying script from the new package instead ... File "/usr/bin/pyclean", line 63 except (IOError, OSError), e: ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/python-samba_2%3a4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u7+b1_amd64.deb (--unpack): subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/pycompile", line 35, in <module> from debpython.version import SUPPORTED, debsorted, vrepr, \ File "/usr/share/python/debpython/version.py", line 24, in <module> from ConfigParser import SafeConfigParser ImportError: No module named 'ConfigParser' dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/python-samba_2%3a4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u7+b1_amd64.deb needrestart is being skipped since dpkg has failed E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Failed to perform requested operation on package. Trying to recover: dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python-samba: python-samba depends on samba-libs (= 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u6); however: Version of samba-libs:amd64 on system is 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u7+b1. dpkg: error processing package python-samba (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of samba: samba depends on python-samba; however: Package python-samba is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package samba (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of samba-common-bin: samba-common-bin depends on python-samba; however: Package python-samba is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package samba-common-bin (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: python-samba samba samba-common-bin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So far as I can tell, samba only exists on my system because smbclient is suggested by CUPS and since my wife sometime prints from her Windows laptop I want to leave it installed (is this correct?). Trying to reinstall, or update any of the samba packages just gives me more of the same. How do I resolve this? At some point I will want to upgrade from Jessie to Stretch, but I need a clean system before I can attempt that. Marc |