Samba 4 provision error in recent git

[Kev Latimer]

Hi all,

Did a dummy run of a production samba 4 install this weekend using a git 
pull from Saturday morning (didn't make a note of the version though but 
about 10am GMT) and although I hit some issues with running bind_dlz 
alongside our current DNS I had 6 geographically dispersed (over WAN) 
samba 4 DC's playing nicely and replicating happily.  Huge kudos to the 
team for what is a fantastic achievement so far.

Decided to to have a play using bind9 flat file DNS in a test 
environment this morning, by wiping and re-provisioning the initial DC.  
As always, did a git pull and recompile and then ran a provision (as it 
happens, I've only just noticed the HOWTO refers to provision in 
/usr/local/samba/sbin rather than /usr/src/samba-master/source4/setup 
now, although I tried both) and got the following result:

root at mydc:/# /usr/local/samba/sbin/provision --realm=mydomain.local 
--domain=MYDOMAIN--adminpass=password --server-role=dc 
--dns-backend=BIND9_FLATFILE
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/local/samba/sbin/provision", line 262, in <module>
     useeadb=eadb, next_rid=opts.next_rid, lp=lp)
   File 
"/usr/local/samba/lib/python2.6/site-packages/samba/provision/__init__.py", 
line 1663, in provision
     eadb=useeadb, lp=lp, server_services=server_services)
   File 
"/usr/local/samba/lib/python2.6/site-packages/samba/provision/__init__.py", 
line 648, in make_smbconf
     shares["sysvol"] = os.path.join(global_settings["state directory"],
KeyError: 'state directory'

I also tried it without the --dns-backend option but same result.  
Version I have is "Version 4.0.0alpha19-GIT-b6fcac6".

I'm going to hazard a guess it's expecting an option regarding where to 
put sysvol and there's no default in this version of provision but I 
can't seem to spot how to pass it to provision.  My python is about as 
good as my Mandarin Chinese I'm afraid, so I'm fumbling a bit....  Any 
ideas?

Cheers,

Kev

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