[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#558116: Bug#558116: samba fails to reconfigure via 'dpkg-reconfigure -plow samba'

[Massimo Manghi]

What do you suggest then? This specific samba installation was totally under
control of debconf. Should the bug be reported against another package (maybe
a dpkg related package)?

 -- Massimo Manghi 

On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:16:38 +0100, Christian Perrier wrote
> Quoting Massimo Manghi (massimo.manghi at unipr.it):
> > Package: samba
> > Version: 2:3.4.3-1
> > Severity: important
> > 
> > 
> > trying to reconfigure samba via the debian dpkg-reconfigure script 
> > fails because of a (perhaps) trivial mistake in the way the stream editor 
> > 'sed' is used.
> 
> This seems completely unrelated to sed use. When adding "set -x" to
> samba.postinst, I get:
> 
> .../...
> + update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/smbstatus smbstatus 
> /usr/bin/smbstatus.samba3 10 --slave 
> /usr/share/man/man1/smbstatus.1.gz smbstatus.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/smbstatus.samba3.1.gz
> + . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
> + [ ! 1 ]
> + [ -z  ]
> + exec
> + [  ]
> + exec
> + DEBCONF_REDIR=1
> + export DEBCONF_REDIR
> + INITCONFFILE=/etc/default/samba
> + umask 022
> + [ -r /etc/default/samba ]
> + db_get samba/run_mode
> + _db_cmd GET samba/run_mode
> + IFS=  printf %s\n GET samba/run_mode
> + IFS=
>  read -r _db_internal_line
> + RET=20 Unsupported command "update-alternatives:" (full line was 
> "update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/smbstatus.samba3 to provide 
> /usr/bin/smbstatus (smbstatus) in auto mode.") received from confmodule.
> + return 20
> + true
> + RUN_MODE=20 Unsupported command "update-alternatives:" (full line 
> was "update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/smbstatus.samba3 to provide 
> /usr/bin/smbstatus (smbstatus) in auto mode.") received from confmodule.
> + TMPFILE=/etc/default/samba.dpkg-tmp
> + sed -e s/^[[:space:]]*RUN_MODE[[:space:]]*=.*/RUN_MODE="20 
> Unsupported command "update-alternatives:" (full line was "update-
> alternatives: using /usr/bin/smbstatus.samba3 to provide 
> /usr/bin/smbstatus (smbstatus) in auto mode.") received from confmodule."/
> sed: -e expression #1, char 140: unknown option to `s'
> 
> I highly suspect this has nothing to do with samba....or certainly
> nothign to do with our use of sed....


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