[Samba] failed to execute child process

[Dale Schroeder]

It's not on any of my Samba 3 systems.  A quick search shows only Samba4 
references for that module.

Dale

On 03/11/2010 9:24 PM, Larry and Sandi Miller wrote:
> Will try. Is samba3sam.so part of a samba4 package? That may explain some of
> my problem.
> -Larry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dale Schroeder [mailto:dale at BriannasSaladDressing.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 1:36 PM
> To: Larry and Sandi Miller; Samba
> Subject: Re: [Samba] failed to execute child process
>
> Sounds more like a corrupted dpkg than a Samba issue.
> I think you will need to determine what's broken there before you can
> fix the Samba install.
>
> Dale
>
>
> On 03/11/2010 12:06 AM, Larry and Sandi Miller wrote:
>    
>> Long story short - very newbie on Linux. Loaded successfully Ubuntu9.10.
>> Intrigued by Samba, tried to load newest version. Screwed up something, so
>> tried to uninstall then re-install.
>>
>> Now getting "Could not launch samba" with message 'Failed to execute child
>> process "/usr/lib/samba/ldb/samba3sam.so" (no such file or directory).
>>
>> Version is 2:3.4.0-3ubuntu5.4
>>
>>
>>
>> Noted directory does not exist on my machine.
>>
>> Tried aptitude reinstall samba. Message back 'samba is not currently
>> installed so it will not be reinstalled.'
>>
>> Tried aptitude install samba. This appeared to work, but no joy when I
>>      
> tried
>    
>> to launch it. Still got the message "the program 'samba' is currently not
>> installed. You can install it by typing: sudo apt-get install samba4."
>>
>> I do have a samb4 package in archive, however do not understand why
>> samba3.xx appears to be installed, but isn't and I get the other noted
>> messages. I want to install samba3.xx
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Larry
>>
>>
>>      
>