Description Janis Meybohm 2015-01-13 17:00:00 CET

Ticket#2015011321000424 

samba-libs.preinst breaks if some tdb files exist in /var/lib/samba/ AND /var/lib/samba/private/
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for file in passdb.tdb secrets.tdb schannel_store.tdb idmap2.tdb
        do
                if [ -e /var/lib/samba/$file ]
                then
                        if [ -e /var/lib/samba/private/$file ] &&
                                [ ! /var/lib/samba/$file -ef /var/lib/samba/private/$file ]
                        then
                                echo $file exists in /var/lib/samba and /var/lib/samba/private, aborting samba-libs preinst
                                echo rename one of them to allow the install/upgrade to continue
                                echo http://bugs.debian.org/726472
                                ls -al /var/lib/samba /var/lib/samba/private
                                exit 1
                        fi
                fi
        done
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Selecting previously deselected package samba-libs.
Unpacking samba-libs (from .../samba-libs_2%3a4.2.0~rc2-1.708.201411171637_amd64.deb) ...
secrets.tdb exists in /var/lib/samba and /var/lib/samba/private, aborting samba-libs preinst
rename one of them to allow the install/upgrade to continue
http://bugs.debian.org/726472


This hit a customers DC-Backup that was migrated from Samba 3 to Samba 4 (while on UCS 3.x). The broken update left the system in a very bad state as networking and tty login where no longer possible.