[Samba] Samba broken after dist-upgrade in Ubuntu 20.04?

[Rowland penny]

On 14/11/2020 09:37, Joachim Lindenberg via samba wrote:
> Hello,
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> I installed updates today on my Ubuntu 20.04 and after that, Samba was disabled/masked/not installed at all.
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> Even attempting to install samba again reports:
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>   
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> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
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> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
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> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
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> or been moved out of Incoming.
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> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
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>   
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> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
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> samba : Depends: samba-common (= 2:4.11.6+dfsg-0ubuntu1.6) but 2:4.12.10+dfsg-0.1focal1 is to be installed
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>           Depends: samba-common-bin (= 2:4.11.6+dfsg-0ubuntu1.6) but 2:4.12.10+dfsg-0.1focal1 is to be installed
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>           Depends: libwbclient0 (= 2:4.11.6+dfsg-0ubuntu1.6) but 2:4.12.10+dfsg-0.1focal1 is to be installed
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>           Depends: samba-libs (= 2:4.11.6+dfsg-0ubuntu1.6) but 2:4.12.10+dfsg-0.1focal1 is to be installed
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> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
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>   
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> Is this a know issue? And how can I recover from that situation?
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> As I ran into similar issues when upgrading from 18.04 to 20.04 – is Ubuntu supported at all?
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> Thanks, Joachim
>
This isn't really a Samba problem, it appears to be a Ubuntu packaging 
problem. I suggest you check your apt repo sources lists and check they 
are all set to focal. If this doesn't fix your problem, then you are 
going to have to ask Ubuntu, Samba provides the source code and Ubuntu 
builds their packages from that.

Rowland