SMB Plus probably destroyed my 6.2.4 installation

[Campus]

Hi,

two days ago I tried the SMB Plus addon and after testing it I uninstalled. This uninstall came up with an error message. I ignored this error. Then I had to restart the machine and now my samba seems to be broken completely. I cannot browse some folders etc pp.

How do I reinstall 6.2.4 with the available image file? I don't want to update to 6.4.0 yet.

Please advise.

Best,

Campus

PS. this forum software really sucks... why do I have to give this a label to get a post preview? What is a label anyway?

[Campus]

Ok, found the right page to reinstall 6.2.4 and after that it was working again. The SMB Plus needs to be fixed anyway.

[kohdee]

SMB Plus makes changes to an overrides file, so its functionality is very limited in the grand scheme of things. On uninstall of SMB Plus, the overrides file is not manipulated.  On OS Reinstall, the overrides file is not touched, so I don't believe this was your problem.

[Campus]

Thanks for your explanation. Could you please point me to the override file so I can manually remove it from the machine?

Best,

Campus

[kohdee]

It's /etc/frontview/samba/smb.conf.overrides

[Campus]

That file does not exist on my machine. Hmmm. Could the firmware re-install be responsible for removing this file?

[kohdee]

The OS reinstall overwrites existing simple config files that are system generated, but does not overwrite or remove this file. 

[Campus]

Ok, this leaves me puzzled but I will leave it as it is. Thanks for your time.

[kohdee]

When you had SMB Plus installed, did you make any modifications or just observe the UI and uninstall?

[Campus]

I don't remember exactly whether I applied a few of my clicks but I believe I did not. As far as I can remember I just went through the different tabs to look for the oplocks option and then went on to read some Samba documentation about it. After that I decided to remove the addon which showed the error message.

[kohdee]

If you didn't make any changes, then the overrides file was never generated.  
The uninstall for SMB Plus just removes the plugin from its directory and refreshes apache.

Would be interesting to know what you were experiencing at that time.

[Campus]

The error message when uninstalling was pretty generic "System: Failed to uninstall application 'SMB Plus'."

The problem I had after this: I could browse the folder structure but I could not access/read the files. For example Windows Explorer did not show any application icons. And trying to copy a file never started.

[kohdee]

When you uninstall SMB Plus, it'll force removal of /apps/smbplus and reload the apache2 server since the web config is removed and so not sure exactly why it failed. Maybe you might see something in the logs under apt-history.log

[Campus]

/apps/smbplus does not exist anymore. In the apt/history.log I could find the following entry:

Start-Date: 2015-10-05  00:38:37
Commandline: apt-get -y purge smbplus
Purge: smbplus:amd64 (1.0.3)
Error: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
End-Date: 2015-10-05  00:38:39

Looks like dpkg had a serious problem.

[kohdee]

That's a pretty generic error, unfortunately.  Purging was also probably just deleting /apps/smbplus folder as well.