Thread: samba-common
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#6
Originally Posted by dchky View Post
The solution is to open up your most favorite text editor and remove the silly windows LF/CR from the end of each line. Someone borked up - People still use Microsoft? : )

In simple terms ^M is spamming the scripts.

Both of the following files have this issue:

/var/lib/dpkg/info/samba-common.postinst
/var/lib/dpkg/info/samba-common.postrm

Once you remove the ^M from the end of every line, it will both install and remove correctly. It's quite probable that the other samba-common files in this directory are also having the same problem - though I didn't check.
Hi there, I'm having this problem with smbfs and samba-common failing to configure, meaning they also fail when trying to remove them.

While I partly understand your instructions (have opened the two files you mentioned using a text editor) I don't know what you mean by ^M, and can't see anything of the sort anywhere in either file! Is ^M some sort of "code" or designation?