I had (somewhat) successfully upgraded from 10.10 -> 11.04, more successfully upgraded from 11.04 -> 11.10 and then I had used Popey’s tip for selecting the fastest mirror.
So I hit the upgrade button to 12.04, and waited.
With “4 minutes” to go, the upgrade stalled, apparently doing something with samba. After an hour, I couldn’t see it doing anything, so I killed the upgrade processes, and kicked it off again.
This time it went through correctly, and the system came up fine after a reboot.
However, when I subsequently tried to ping an address on my network, I got an error about “wide symlinks”. I knew that there was a line in my smb.conf which said:
wide symlinks = yes
But wait, why was it appearing in sodding ping?
No idea. But after some googling, I found it should have been:
wide links = yes
I changed the smb.conf file, and restarted samba.
So far, the error has gone. I still don’t know why it would have a) cocked up the upgrade process and b) subsequently put the error into ping?
Ideas welcome in the comments!
You really make it seem so easy with your presentation but I find this topic to be really something that I think I would never understand. It seems too complex and extremely broad for me. I’m looking forward for your next post, I will try to get the hang of it!