SAMBA_4.11.14... not found

So, I shut down Samba and tried to restart it. The most recent OS updates mutilated the SAMBA installation:

**●** nmb.service - Samba NMB Daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/nmb.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: **failed** (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2021-05-03 08:42:26 PDT; 20s ago
  Process: 14372 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/nmbd --foreground --no-process-group $NMBDOPTIONS **(code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)**
 Main PID: 14372 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

May 03 08:42:26 bach systemd[1]: Starting Samba NMB Daemon...
May 03 08:42:26 bach nmbd[14372]: /usr/sbin/nmbd: /usr/lib64/samba/libreplace-samba4.so: version `SAMBA_4.11.14_GIT.247.8C858F7EE14LP152.3.19.1_SUSE_OS15.0_X86_64' not found (required by /usr/lib64/libwbclient.so.0)
May 03 08:42:26 bach nmbd[14372]: /usr/sbin/nmbd: /usr/lib64/samba/libwinbind-client-samba4.so: version `SAMBA_4.11.14_GIT.247.8C858F7EE14LP152.3.19.1_SUSE_OS15.0_X86_64' not found (required by /usr/lib64/libwbclient.so.0)
May 03 08:42:26 bach systemd[1]: **nmb.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE**
May 03 08:42:26 bach systemd[1]: **Failed to start Samba NMB Daemon.**
May 03 08:42:26 bach systemd[1]: **nmb.service: Unit entered failed state.**
May 03 08:42:26 bach systemd[1]: **nmb.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

Any suggestions?**

SAMBA needed to be uninstalled and re-installed. The auto-update messed it up.

The only thing that a patch or update can destroy is, the configuration …

  • Did you have a backup of the files in “/etc/samba/”?
    Especially “/etc/samba/smb.conf” …

It’s a bit strange that, the patch/update didn’t save a copy of the previous configuration …

Is it only Debian that asks during updates if it should keep the existing .conf of installed programms it they are non-default?

Do you have a log of the update that botched the samba install?