[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#593823: samba: Samba won't run after install

[Aniruddha]

Package: samba
Version: 2:3.2.5-4lenny12
Severity: important

Samba refuses to start after a default installation. I think is has something to do with the passwd database.

error message: 
[2010/08/21 12:03:57,  0] lib/fault.c:dump_core(201)
  dumping core in /var/log/samba/cores/smbd

Steps to repdroduce:
aptitude purge samba-common samba samba-common-bin smbclient
aptitude install samba


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.5
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (700, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages samba depends on:
ii  adduser         3.110                    add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debcon 1.5.24                   Debian configuration management sy
ii  libacl1         2.2.47-2                 Access control list shared library
ii  libattr1        1:2.4.43-2               Extended attribute shared library
ii  libc6           2.10.2-6                 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcomerr2      1.41.3-1                 common error description library
ii  libcups2        1.4.3-1                  Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libgnutls26     2.8.6-1                  the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libkrb53        1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-5lenny4 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libldap-2.4-2   2.4.11-1+lenny2          OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpam-modules  1.0.1-5+lenny1           Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime  1.0.1-5+lenny1           Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g        1.0.1-5+lenny1           Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpopt0        1.16-1                   lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libtalloc1      1.2.0~git20080616-1      hierarchical pool based memory all
ii  libwbclient0    2:3.4.7~dfsg-2~bpo50+2   Samba winbind client library
ii  logrotate       3.7.1-5                  Log rotation utility
ii  lsb-base        3.2-20                   Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  procps          1:3.2.7-11               /proc file system utilities
ii  samba-common    2:3.2.5-4lenny12         Samba common files used by both th
ii  update-inetd    4.31                     inetd configuration file updater
ii  zlib1g          1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12        compression library - runtime

samba recommends no packages.

Versions of packages samba suggests:
pn  ldb-tools                   <none>       (no description available)
ii  openbsd-inetd [inet-superse 0.20080125-2 The OpenBSD Internet Superserver
pn  smbldap-tools               <none>       (no description available)

-- debconf information:
  samba/run_mode: daemons
  samba/generate_smbpasswd: true