I've recently opened a thread here with an identical title which suggested to me that I purge my samba and reinstall it based on an older question posted in this forum.
I thought everything was fixed when I purged samba as I no longer had apt-get errors, however, I realized that the problem still persist when I just realized that my gnome-control-center is using broken SAMBA libraries.
~ ❯❯❯ gnome-control-center
gnome-control-center: error while loading shared libraries: libaesni-intel.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
~ ❯❯❯ ldd /usr/bin/gnome-control-center
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libsamba3-util.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsmbclient.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libreplace.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsmbclient.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libmsrpc3.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsmbclient.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libutil-cmdline.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsmbclient.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libgse.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsmbclient.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libdcerpc-samba.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsmbclient.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libsamba-debug.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsmbclient.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libsamba-security.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsmbclient.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libsecrets3.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsmbclient.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/liblibcli-lsa3.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsmbclient.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libcli-smb-common.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsmbclient.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/liblibsmb.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsmbclient.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libreplace.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libndr.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libgenrand.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libndr.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libsamba-debug.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libndr.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libtime-basic.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsmbconf.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libtalloc-report.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsmbconf.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libgenrand.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsmbconf.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libCHARSET3.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsmbconf.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libsocket-blocking.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsmbconf.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libutil-setid.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsmbconf.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libserver-role.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsmbconf.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libsmbd-shim.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsmbconf.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libtdb-wrap.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsmbconf.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libsys-rw.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsmbconf.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libmessages-util.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsmbconf.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libinterfaces.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsmbconf.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libiov-buf.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsmbconf.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libreplace.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsmbconf.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libsmb-transport.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsmbconf.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libsamba-debug.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsmbconf.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libserver-id-db.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsmbconf.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libsamba-security.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsmbconf.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libmessages-dgm.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsmbconf.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libutil-reg.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsmbconf.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libdbwrap.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsmbconf.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libutil-tdb.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsmbconf.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libsamba3-util.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsmbconf.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libsamba-sockets.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsmbconf.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libcli-smb-common.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsmbconf.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libtime-basic.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsamba-util.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libreplace.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsamba-util.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libsys-rw.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsamba-util.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libgenrand.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsamba-util.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libsocket-blocking.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsamba-util.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libsamba-debug.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsamba-util.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libtime-basic.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtevent-util.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libreplace.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libndr-standard.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libsamba-security.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libndr-standard.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libsamba-security.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsamba-credentials.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libgenrand.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsamba-credentials.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libsamdb-common.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsamba-credentials.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libdbwrap.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsamba-credentials.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libsamba-debug.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsamba-credentials.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libldbsamba.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsamba-credentials.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libcliauth.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsamba-credentials.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libutil-tdb.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsamba-credentials.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libreplace.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsamba-credentials.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libauthkrb5.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsamba-credentials.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libkrb5samba.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsamba-credentials.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libreplace.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsamba-hostconfig.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libserver-role.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsamba-hostconfig.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libsamba-debug.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsamba-hostconfig.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libreplace.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdcerpc-binding.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libgensec.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdcerpc-binding.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libsamba-debug.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdcerpc-binding.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libsamba-sockets.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdcerpc-binding.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libreplace.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libndr-nbt.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libsamba-security.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libndr-nbt.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libreplace.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwbclient.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libwinbind-client.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwbclient.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libauthkrb5.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsamdb.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libgenrand.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsamdb.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libsamba-debug.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsamdb.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libcliauth.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsamdb.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libreplace.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsamdb.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libsamdb-common.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsamdb.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libldbsamba.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsamdb.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libcli-ldap-common.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsamdb.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libsamba-security.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsamdb.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libkrb5samba.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsamdb.so.0)
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libsamba-security.so.0: version `SAMBA_4.11.6_UBUNTU' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libndr-krb5pac.so.0)
...
libaesni-intel.so.0 => not found
...
Delving deeper into the problem, I noticed that even after purging samba, the libraries still remain at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba and are used by other programs.
I have reinstalled samba, samba-common-bin and samba-libs, but it does not solve anything.
Now my question is how can I fix this issue without breaking things more?
Why is libaesni-intel.so.0 undetected?
~ ❯❯❯ uname -a
Linux user 5.11.0-38-generic #42~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Tue Sep 28 20:41:07 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
