[Samba] ImportError: No module named 'dns'

[Roy Eastwood]

Apologies for answering my own post - found that python3-dnspython needed to
be installed.  Once I had done that it works normally.

Sorry for the noise!

Roy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roy Eastwood [mailto:spindles7 at gmail.com]
> Sent: 15 May 2019 15:44
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: ImportError: No module named 'dns'
> 
> After updating my samba version to 4.10.3 (from a self-compiled 4.10.2
> version) on a DC running on Debian Stretch, I notice errors in the logs
when
> samba_dnsupdate is run.   Manually running it produces:
> 
> root at debian-vb:~# samba_dnsupdate --verbose
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/local/samba/sbin/samba_dnsupdate", line 56, in <module>
>     import dns.resolver
> ImportError: No module named 'dns'
> 
> This may have been present for some time, but only just noticed it.   I
have
> checked that python-dnspython is installed:
> 
> root at debian-vb:~# dpkg -l | grep python-dnspython
> ii  python-dnspython                1.15.0-1+deb9u1                   all
DNS toolkit for
> Python
> 
> (The other DC in the domain (also updated to 4.10.3 running on rasbian
> stretch) works OK.)
> 
> It was working before, obviously something has changed.   How to fix?
Any
> advice appreciated.   Let me know if you need more info.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Roy