[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#953530: samba-common-bin: post-install fails with "lock directory /run/samba does not exist"

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

Gian Piero Carrubba wrote:
> Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Diederik de Haas wrote:
> And indeed I do not have a /run/samba/ directory on my Bookworm system/server.
> I don't think it's relevant, but it (still?) has sysv-init as init.

I think, I see a pattern here: My three affected hosts have sysvinit,
too (on purpose).

> (And is a Xen dom0 host.)

This is indeed unrelated. For me it was a Xen DomU (i.e. a Xen guest
host) and an EeePC 900A (i.e. a netbook) without any virtualisation.

Diederik de Haas wrote:
> On vrijdag 18 maart 2022 23:28:33 CET Diederik de Haas wrote:
> > And indeed I do not have a /run/samba/ directory on my Bookworm
> > system/server.
> 
> After I manually created /run/samba/, the installation succeeded.

So I suspect that the init script for some reason no more creates that
directory.

Diederik de Haas wrote:
> Two years later and this issue still exists? I saw Axel already updated 
> the 'found' version so I won't have to do this.

The reason why this pops up now with multiple people again is probably
that we had a bunch of important kernel updates and hence reboots and
empty /run/ tmpfs after reboot — which brings up this issue again even
if you had created /run/samba/ manually after the previous reboot.

		Regards, Axel
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