Error with Samba update 15 April 2016

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Hi the error message asked to send the log file to the forum - where do I find this?

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No need to reply I have just found out how to do this.

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If that is the case either share your findings with the world to make this thread helpful or please delete the post to avoid clutter

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The problem turned out to be that some Samba dependencies were missing so an apt-get -f install sorted it out.

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Hi, I had the same problem after an osmc udpate but I’m not being able to solve it with apt-get -f install.

This command returns the following error:

Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Setting up samba (2:4.2.10+dfsg-0+deb8u2) ... Job for smbd.service failed. See 'systemctl status smbd.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details. invoke-rc.d: initscript smbd, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing package samba (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: samba E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Then using systemctl status smbd.service:

Apr 25 09:35:07 osmcrai smbd[9587]: Starting SMB/CIFS daemon: smbd failed! Apr 25 09:35:07 osmcrai systemd[1]: smbd.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1 Apr 25 09:35:07 osmcrai systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: start Samba SMB/CIFS daemon (smbd). Apr 25 09:35:07 osmcrai systemd[1]: Unit smbd.service entered failed state.

Any help there to get it fixed?

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Suggest to post grab-logs -A

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Here it is:

root@osmcrai:~# grab-logs -A
Logs successfully uploaded.
Logs available at http://paste.osmc.io/ujubejivuz
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Have you installed the samba server from App Store or manually? Did you changed the /etc/samba/smb.conf? Can you post it paste-log /etc/samba/smb.conf

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I installed it manually.
http://paste.osmc.io/sujirikaqu :slight_smile:

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Ok I would recommend to remove it
sudo apt-get remove samba
sudo mv /etc/samba /home/osmc/smb_backup

And then try to install the version from the APP Store

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Ok, I’ll try and let you know.
Many thanks

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Hi again,
I was able to install it again but when trying to start the service it returns the following:

root@osmcrai:~# service samba restart Job for samba.service failed. See 'systemctl status samba.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.

` samba.service - Samba Server
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/samba.service; enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2016-04-25 20:30:13 CEST; 1min 6s ago
Process: 1898 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/samba.distributed start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Main PID: 1898 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Apr 25 20:30:11 osmcrai samba.distributed[1898]: Starting nmbd (via systemctl): nmbd.service.
Apr 25 20:30:13 osmcrai samba.distributed[1898]: Starting smbd (via systemctl): smbd.serviceJob for smbd.service failed. See ‘systemctl status smbd.service’ and ‘journalctl -xn’ for details.
Apr 25 20:30:13 osmcrai samba.distributed[1898]: failed!
Apr 25 20:30:13 osmcrai systemd[1]: samba.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Apr 25 20:30:13 osmcrai systemd[1]: Failed to start Samba Server.
Apr 25 20:30:13 osmcrai systemd[1]: Unit samba.service entered failed state.
`

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After some removals and installations it is working again.
I do not understand what was the problem but I guess something was misconfigured during the update.

Thanks for your help. :slight_smile: