Samba fail to start!

I was setting up samba to allow my shares available for windows users. However, i got frustated when if failed to start. I was wondering what could cause it since from previous 12.2 slack it was ok.

The error:

bash-3.1# /etc/rc.d/rc.samba start
Starting Samba:
/usr/sbin/smbd -D
/etc/rc.d/rc.samba: line 11: 24728 Aborted (core dumped) /usr/sbin/smbd -D
/usr/sbin/nmbd -D
/etc/rc.d/rc.samba: line 11: 24729 Aborted (core dumped) /usr/sbin/nmbd -D

I started checking the logs in /var/log/samba/* and tried to dismantle through the errors.

[2009/09/04 15:48:13,0] smbd/server.c:main(1210)
smbd version 3.2.13 started.
Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2009
[2009/09/04 15:48:13,0] lib/messages_local.c:messaging_tdb_init(96)
ERROR: Failed to initialise messages database: No such file or directory
[2009/09/04 15:48:13, 0] lib/messages.c:messaging_init(204)
messaging_tdb_init failed: NT_STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND
[2009/09/04 15:48:13,0] lib/util.c:smb_panic(1670)
PANIC (pid 24728): Could not init smbd messaging context
[2009/09/04 15:48:13,0] lib/util.c:log_stack_trace(1774)
BACKTRACE: 6 stack frames:
#0 /usr/sbin/smbd(log_stack_trace+0x2d) [0xb7d29724]
#1 /usr/sbin/smbd(smb_panic+0x80) [0xb7d29881]
#2 /usr/sbin/smbd(smbd_messaging_context+0x64) [0xb7f6785f]
#3 /usr/sbin/smbd(main+0x6ac) [0xb7f69651]
#4 /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe5) [0xb762d6a5]
#5 /usr/sbin/smbd [0xb7b12921]
[2009/09/04 15:48:13,0] lib/fault.c:dump_core(201)
dumping core in /var/log/samba/cores/smbd

core dump? oh shit, not another bug… damn.. It made me disbelief as it was working fine before….

I did numerous test to pin down the root cause.

• Started samba without smb.conf – smbd and nmbd did not run
• Started samba with dummy smb.conf – smbd and nmbd runs
• Started samba with updated smb.conf – smbd and nmbd did not run

Then i realized that the problem lies in the smb.conf file. I checked the /etc/samba/smb.conf  file. I run testparm to check what could be the problem.

bash-3.1# testparm
Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf
Processing section "[shared]"
Loaded services file OK.
ERROR: lock directory file:///var/cache/samba does not exist
ERROR: pid directory file:///var/run does not exist
Server role: ROLE_STANDALONE
Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions
(input truncated.....)
bash-3.1#

What the f u ck man! I knew it when i first saw it. The file:// is appending at every directory configurations.

I quickly remove every occurance of  file:// and restarted samba and hell yeah! It resolve the problem.

bash-3.1# /etc/rc.d/rc.samba start
Starting Samba:  /usr/sbin/smbd -D
                 /usr/sbin/nmbd -D
bash-3.1#

How the hell does the config change like that?

Well, its kde4 samba setting bug…damn..should have go through *all bug lists* first.. hahahah

The fix would be in KDE 4.3.0. However if you have the sources, just update with the latest SVN.

http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=998002

refer here

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200436

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6548

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