[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#816301: samba 2:4.3.3 refuses to start

Francesco Potortì Potorti at isti.cnr.it
Mon Feb 29 13:18:42 UTC 2016


Package: samba
Version: 2:4.3.3+dfsg-2+b1
Severity: important

Today, when upgrading from 2:4.1.17+dfsg-4 to 2:4.3.3+dfsg-2+b1, I found
that samba, winbind and libpam-winbind were not configured.  It looked
like a circular dependency, so I tried to force configuration:

|tucano:~# dpkg --force-depends --configure --pending
|Setting up samba (2:4.3.3+dfsg-2+b1) ...
|Job for smbd.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status smbd.service" and "journalctl -xe" 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
|dpkg: winbind: dependency problems, but configuring anyway as you requested:
| winbind depends on samba (= 2:4.3.3+dfsg-2+b1); however:
|  Package samba is not configured yet.
|
|Setting up winbind (2:4.3.3+dfsg-2+b1) ...
|Job for winbind.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status winbind.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
|invoke-rc.d: initscript winbind, action "start" failed.
|dpkg: error processing package winbind (--configure):
| subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
|dpkg: libpam-winbind:amd64: dependency problems, but configuring anyway as you requested:
| libpam-winbind:amd64 depends on winbind (= 2:4.3.3+dfsg-2+b1); however:
|  Package winbind is not configured yet.
|
|Setting up libpam-winbind:amd64 (2:4.3.3+dfsg-2+b1) ...
|debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
|debconf: (Dialog frontend will not work on a dumb terminal, an emacs shell buffer, or without a controlling terminal.)
|debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
|Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.21-9) ...
|Errors were encountered while processing:
| samba
| winbind

As you sse, it worked for libpam-winbind, but not for winbind and samba.  Here is some more info:

|tucano:~# systemctl status winbind.service
|● winbind.service - LSB: start Winbind daemon
|   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/winbind; bad; vendor preset: enabled)
|   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2016-02-29 13:52:22 CET; 19min ago
|     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
|
|Feb 29 13:52:22 tucano.isti.cnr.it systemd[1]: Starting LSB: start Winbind daemon...
|Feb 29 13:52:22 tucano.isti.cnr.it winbind[13309]: Starting the Winbind daemon: winbind failed!
|Feb 29 13:52:22 tucano.isti.cnr.it systemd[1]: winbind.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1
|Feb 29 13:52:22 tucano.isti.cnr.it systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: start Winbind daemon.
|Feb 29 13:52:22 tucano.isti.cnr.it systemd[1]: winbind.service: Unit entered failed state.
|Feb 29 13:52:22 tucano.isti.cnr.it systemd[1]: winbind.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

|tucano:~# journalctl -xe
|-- The start-up result is done.
|Feb 29 14:12:06 tucano.isti.cnr.it systemd[1]: Starting LSB: start Samba SMB/CIFS daemon (smbd)...
|-- Subject: Unit smbd.service has begun start-up
|-- Defined-By: systemd
|-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
|--
|-- Unit smbd.service has begun starting up.
|Feb 29 14:12:06 tucano.isti.cnr.it smbd[20294]: Starting SMB/CIFS daemon: smbd failed!
|Feb 29 14:12:06 tucano.isti.cnr.it systemd[1]: smbd.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1
|Feb 29 14:12:06 tucano.isti.cnr.it systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: start Samba SMB/CIFS daemon (smbd).
|-- Subject: Unit smbd.service has failed
|-- Defined-By: systemd
|-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
|--
|-- Unit smbd.service has failed.
|--
|-- The result is failed.
|Feb 29 14:12:06 tucano.isti.cnr.it systemd[1]: smbd.service: Unit entered failed state.
|Feb 29 14:12:06 tucano.isti.cnr.it systemd[1]: smbd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
|Feb 29 14:12:06 tucano.isti.cnr.it polkitd(authority=local)[2419]: Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-process:20288:1lines 1799-1821/1821 (END)q

Now I am stuck...


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (101, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages samba depends on:
ii  adduser           3.113+nmu3
ii  dpkg              1.18.4
ii  libbsd0           0.8.2-1
ii  libc6             2.21-9
ii  libcap2           1:2.24-12
ii  libldb1           2:1.1.26-1
ii  libpam-modules    1.1.8-3.2
ii  libpam-runtime    1.1.8-3.2
ii  libpopt0          1.16-10
ii  libpython2.7      2.7.11-4
ii  libtalloc2        2.1.5-1
ii  libtdb1           1.3.8-1
ii  libtevent0        0.9.26-3
ii  libwbclient0      2:4.3.3+dfsg-2+b1
ii  lsb-base          9.20160110
ii  procps            2:3.3.11-3
ii  python            2.7.11-1
ii  python-dnspython  1.12.0-1
ii  python-samba      2:4.3.3+dfsg-2+b1
pn  python2.7:any     <none>
ii  samba-common      2:4.3.3+dfsg-2
ii  samba-common-bin  2:4.3.3+dfsg-2+b1
ii  samba-libs        2:4.3.3+dfsg-2+b1
ii  tdb-tools         1.3.8-1
ii  update-inetd      4.43

Versions of packages samba recommends:
ii  attr                1:2.4.47-2
ii  logrotate           3.8.7-2
ii  samba-dsdb-modules  2:4.3.3+dfsg-2+b1
ii  samba-vfs-modules   2:4.3.3+dfsg-2+b1

Versions of packages samba suggests:
pn  bind9          <none>
pn  bind9utils     <none>
pn  ctdb           <none>
pn  ldb-tools      <none>
ii  ntp            1:4.2.8p4+dfsg-3+b1
pn  smbldap-tools  <none>
ih  winbind        2:4.3.3+dfsg-2+b1

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/logrotate.d/samba changed:
/var/log/samba/log.smbd {
	weekly
	missingok
	rotate 7
	postrotate
		/etc/init.d/smbd reload > /dev/null
	endscript
	compress
	notifempty
}
/var/log/samba/log.nmbd {
	weekly
	missingok
	rotate 7
	postrotate
		[ ! -f /var/run/samba/nmbd.pid ] || kill -HUP `cat /var/run/samba/nmbd.pid`
		find /var/log/samba -mtime +50 -delete
	endscript
	compress
	notifempty
}


-- debconf information:
  samba-common/title:
  samba/generate_smbpasswd: false
  samba/run_mode: daemons



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