Software update problem

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 23 Oct 2016 14:21:44 -0700, Bob wrote:
>Setting up samba (2:4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.1) ...
>insserv: script ups-monitor: service ups-monitor already provided!
>Job for smbd.service failed because the control process exited with
>error code. See "systemctl status smbd.service" and "journalctl -xe"
>for details. invoke-rc.d: initscript smbd, action "start" failed.

That's most likely caused by a bad package.

However, it doesn't harm to do what is suggested by the output, to run

  sudo apt autoremove

to get rid of the automatically installed and no longer required
packages. After that run

  sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade

again. I doubt that it will not fail again, most likely you need to file
a bug against the samba package
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs .

It likely is possible to work around the issue.

Regards,
Ralf