Doing a dist upgrade of ubuntu from 10.04 to 10.10 beta stopped while running the post config. After about 10 minutes I looked in ps and saw: root 9529 0.0 0.0 1772 572 pts/2 S+ 16:59 0:00 /bin/sh -e /var/lib/dpkg/info/samba.postinst configure 2:3.4.7~dfsg-1ubuntu3.2 it appears the config may not exit correctly after running kill on the above process the upgrade finished as expected.
Sounds like an error in the post config script. Please contact the Ubuntu Samba package maintainers. Closing out bug report. Please feel free to re-open if it turns out to be a Samba problem. Thanks!