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[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Tue 06 Sep 2011 02:59:56 PM CEST, Vaclav Klecanda wrote:
> I am trying to run:

> git pull .... samba9-2011 & cd samba9-2011 & ./configure & make ...
> ...
>
> server:/home/v/samba9-2011# ./source4/setup/provision --targetdir
> /home/v/pokusySHledanimVSambe/ --interactive
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "./source4/setup/provision", line 33, in <module>
> import samba
> File "/home/v/samba4src/source4/scripting/python/samba/__init__.py",
> line 45, in <module>
> from samba._ldb import Ldb as _Ldb
> ImportError: No module named _ldb
>
> The parameters are guessed from actual script where brief description
> is provided in help parameter of each option.
If this is a tree that hadn't been updated in a while, you might want to 
run "make clean" before make.

Do you have a bin/python/samba/_ldb.so symlink?

Cheers,

Jelmer

>
> 2011/9/6 Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org <mailto:jelmer at samba.org>>
>
> On Tue 06 Sep 2011 01:33:22 PM CEST, Vaclav Klecanda wrote:
>
> Yes but this is the outdated web in my opinion.
>
> You were asking for the wiki page with the documentation - this is
> it. How is it outdated?
>
>
> E.g. the
> http://wiki.samba.org/index.__php/Samba4/HOWTO
> <http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/HOWTO>. I would like
> to setup a
> new domain with provision but it says me ImportError: No
> module named
> ldb.
>
> Did you install Samba 4 according to the HOWTO?What are you
> running exactly that gives this error?
>
> When I grep the sources for ldb* I got some *.so lib but no
> python code.
>
> The ldb python module is written in C - the ldb.so file is the
> right one. However, you shouldn't have to provide a PYTHONPATH -
> Samba's binaries should be doing that for you.
>
> It confuses me and I lack the step by step HOWTO updated.
> I also lack some kind of system in python code in samba. I
> supposed
> all the packages will be in the same subtree to be able to
> point with
> PYTHONPATH to. The tools that I used when I provisioned my
> domain some
> time ago no longer exists. It seems to me that there is no
> support to
> the users that already use some version of samba4 than this list.
> I think its more effective to spend some time with a wiki page
> that
> describe a particular tool and its usage than answer 100 question
> about it.
>
> Samba 4's UI is still changing, so the tools that you used
> previously may indeed have changed now or have a new name. I don't
> see how a description of a particular tool would have helped here,
> what's the tool you're trying to use?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jelmer
>
>
> 2011/9/6 Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org
> <mailto:jelmer at samba.org> <mailto:jelmer at samba.org
> <mailto:jelmer at samba.org>>>
>
>
> On 09/06/2011 12:52 PM, Vaclav Klecanda wrote:
>
> Hi,
> is there any collaborative tool like wiki to gradually build
> documentation
> for samba 4? It seems to me that every knowledge is in
> outdated webpage and
> in this list archives.
>
> Yep, see the Samba wiki:
>
> http://wiki.samba.org/
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jelmer
>
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