[Samba] Re: RPM reporting running two versions of Samba at the same time

[Rex Dieter]

Doug Coats wrote:

> I was trying to work through a PDC problem that I was having with
> 3.0.23a noted in bug 3964.  I didn't know how to apply the offered
> patch and my distro, FC4, has not offered an update yet to 3.0.23b so
> I thought that I would revert to a previous version that is not
> affected by this bug.
> 
> I forced an install of 3.0.23 samba, common, and client and now rpm
> reports that I have two versions of Samba running at the same time.
> Samba seems to be running, shares are available and access is
> restricted properly. I havn't dared try to join the domain until I
> figure out  what is really going on on my system.  When I inquire of
> rpm what is installed this is what I get.
> 
> # rpm -q samba
> samba-3.0.23a-1.fc4.1
> samba-3.0.23-1.fc4
> 
> I have run rpm --rebuilddb and I get the same result.
> 
> Any insight or explaination is greatly appreciated.

Your rpm database is a bit biffed, I'd suggest
$ rpm -e samba-3.0.23-1.fc4
then
$ rpm -V samba
to make sure  all is well, and if not, re-install samba.

-- Rex