[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#863285: [winbind] Install/Updates Fail When Samba Running as samba 4 Domain

[Roberto C. Sánchez]

On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 09:27:39PM +0000, Michael Papet wrote:
>    Package: winbind
>    Version: 2:4.5.8+dfsg-2
>    Severity: normal
>    --- Please enter the report below this line. ---
>    If you configure /etc/samba/smb.conf as a Samba 4 domain controller, then
>    winbind updates/installs break.  
>    winbind.postinst unconditionally attempts to restart the winbind service.
>     Any attempts to start winbind while samba is running in DC mode fail.

I was shocked to encounter this problem when testing out a jessie ->
stretch upgrade.  Thankfully I did not do the upgrade in production.  I
took an image of one of the VMs that runs as a Samba AD DC and tried the
upgrade on the VM.  The dist-upgrade step failed because of the bad
samba/winbind interaction.  Has this issue really not been encountered
by more people?

Regards,

-Roberto

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