Samba 4 provision error in recent git

[Charles Tryon]

Pfffffffth!  That seems to have fixed my problem with the samba3upgrade
script too (since it's calling the provision process under the hood, and
must pass that parameter along).  Still call that a bug, but at least it's
a reasonable workaround.

Thanks!


On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 5:08 AM, Gianni L <slowsin at gmail.com> wrote:

> hi,
> you have to add --targetdir=<some directory> to bypass this error
> 'cause it seems not to use the default /usr/local/samba dir during the
> provision
> I think it's definitely a little buggy in the provision script or a
> problem with the installed python.
> it happened to me too yesterday on a fresh centos 6.2 installation.
> regards
> Gianni
>
> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Kev Latimer <klatimer at tolent.co.uk>
> wrote:
> > On 28/02/2012 01:00, William Brown wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> 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'
> >>>>
> >> Can confirm I am getting the same error. Seems to pass make quicktest
> >> however (which is in itself a danger)
> >>
> >>
> >> Sincerely,
> >>
> >> William Brown
> >>
> >> pgp.mit.edu
> >> http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0x3C0AC6DAB2F928A2
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > Checked out git this morning (4.0.0alpha19-GIT-65d42ab) and same error
> still
> > there.  Anyone know a workaround?  Surely people have been provisioning
> new
> > Samba4's this week :-P
> >
> > I see there's a similar bug in Bugzilla
> > (https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8781) - is it worth me
> filing a
> > new bug as it's a new provision and my error is slightly different?
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Kev
> >
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