Ubuntu 12.04 update problem

[a.kazemi]

oh, I believe the dist-upgrade did upgrade the distribution at one time or another, maybe not. Dunno.

Have you tried to fix broken pacakges with this?

apt-get -f install

no I haven't tested it and am going to do and will report the result but before this I have to mention something important, maybe all these issues emerged after trying to install samba package! with these commands in terminal:

sudo apt-get install samba

I can't remember why I want to install it but one of the problems that exist in my system and exactly appear when partial upgrade message comes up is the problem report request and when I click report button Ubuntu internal error message appears as bellow:

Sorry, Ubuntu 12.04 has experienced an inrernal error

in details it is written:

ExecutablePath:
/usr/sbin/samba_dnsupdate
Package:
samba4 4.0.0-beta2+dfsg1-3
Problem Type:
Crash
Title: samba_dnsupdate crashed with RuntumeError in get_credentials(): kinit for Ubuntu$@UBUNTU-DOMAIN failed (Cannot contact any KDC for requested realm)
....

Is this the source of my problems?

[dannyboy79]

I don't believe the samba error would be the cause, no

[ibjsb4]

According to this you are running 12.10. Open a terminal and please verify.

cat /etc/issue

And I would like to see what all you do have for sources. So if you would once again in terminal (copy and paste).

find /etc/apt -name '*.list' -exec bash -c 'echo -e "\n$1\n"; cat -n "$1"' _ '{}' \

AND ..

sudo apt-get update

Please post the outputs of the two commands.

[cwsnyder]

@dannyboy79 : Read the man page for apt-get. dist-upgrade does not change the distribution release until the /etc/apt/sources.list file is changed. dist-upgrade just loads all files and dependencies, sometimes fixing broken packages.

[a.kazemi]

I don't believe the samba error would be the cause, no

last night at first I tried to install samba again by the

sudo apt-get install samba

command in terminal and after installation became complete I remove it by this:

sudo apt-get remove samba

after that I haven't gotten the internal system error again! then I unchecked these two option from "software sources" under the "Ubuntu Software" tab which were checked before this:

Proprietary drivers for devices (restricted)
Software restricted by copyright or legal issues (multiverse)

then before checking for update I changed the download from address before it was:

United States : 76.73.4.58

I changed it to:

United States: http://mirror.pnl.gov/ubuntu

after these when I checked for update with Ubuntu update manager it find just 64 Mb update instead of 450 Mb update which had been founded before these. I applied these updates and restart my system. everything seems good now even I installed Scilab again which have given me error and didn't start before now I can start and use it. no nautilus warning appear also I can update eclipse as before!


I execute this command after all of these works and nothing happen:

sudo apt-get -f install

but now I believe that everything comes out from bad installation of samba! and if before doing these works if I have used this command it would find samba corrupted packages and try to fix them so I think the command was my solution.

thanks a lot guys I couldn't do it without your hints

[a.kazemi]

According to this you are running 12.10. Open a terminal and please verify.

cat /etc/issue

And I would like to see what all you do have for sources. So if you would once again in terminal (copy and paste).

find /etc/apt -name '*.list' -exec bash -c 'echo -e "\n$1\n"; cat -n "$1"' _ '{}' \

AND ..

sudo apt-get update

Please post the outputs of the two commands.

the Problem is solved however I try your command
th ubuntu version is:

hpc@ubuntu:~$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS \n \l

I said that I myself try to install samba it hadn't came with my ubuntu 12.04 installation

the application list get too much long do really want it? if yes I execute it again

[a.kazemi]

excuse me, I have found out that samba_dnsupdate is still running on my system. but I have removed samba how I can remove it completely?
it is under this directory:

/usr/sbin/samba_dnsupdate

and I find a directory of its files here:

/etc/samba

or is it the OS main software for sharing and shouldn't be removed?!