[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#569837: Bug#569837: [samba] samba: The nmbd daemon can't start

[Christian PERRIER]

Package: samba
Severity: serious
Version: 2:3.6.0~pre3-1

Quoting Thomas Florek (thflorek at googlemail.com):
> Package: samba
> Version: 2:3.6.0~pre3-1
> 
> --- Please enter the report below this line. ---
> Please see following line in /var/log/samba/log.nmbd:
> 
> [2011/05/13 06:32:05,  0] lib/util_sock.c:1476(create_pipe_sock)
>   error creating socket directory /var/locks/.nmbd: No such file or
> directory
> 
> Daemon should write into directory /var/lock instead:
> # dpkg -S /var/lock
> base-files: /var/lock
> 
> Temporary workaround
> ln -s /var/lock /var/locks
> solves it on my machine.

This has indeed nothing to do with #569837. This is a new bug that
only occurs for samba 3.6 packages. Samba should be compiled with the
newly introduced --with-nmbdsocketdir configure option to set this to
/var/run/samba (we'll switch to /run later on).

I'm therefore opening a new (release critical) bug for this and I'll
fix it ASAP.


Thanks for your report, Thomas. I indeed didn't notice that myself.


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