[Samba] Broken samba

[Bob Williams]

Hi Adam,

On Thursday 24 September 2009 02:56:42 Adam Nielsen wrote:
> > The following makes me think my samba installation is seriously broken,
> > but I don't where to start looking to fix it...
> >
> > barrowhillfarm:~ # smbd restart
> > Aborted (core dumped)
> 
> Possibly one of the libraries that Samba uses has been upgraded, and
> Samba is still accessing it as if it was the old version.
> 
> Recompiling Samba should fix the problem, and is a good excuse to
> upgrade to the latest release while you're at it.
> 
I've upgraded to version 3.4, but I'm still having problems. The testparm 
command gives the following output:

barrowhillfarm:~ # testparm /etc/samba/smb.conf                                             
Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf                                              
Processing section "[homes]"                                                                
Processing section "[profiles]"                                                             
Processing section "[users]"                                                                
Processing section "[groups]"                                                               
Processing section "[pictures]"                                                             
Processing section "[tmp]"                                                                  
Loaded services file OK.                                                                    
ERROR: lock directory file:///var/lib/samba does not exist                                  
ERROR: state directory file:///var/lib/samba does not exist                                 
ERROR: cache directory file:///var/lib/samba does not exist                                 
ERROR: pid directory file:///var/run/samba does not exist                                   
Server role: ROLE_DOMAIN_MEMBER                                                             
Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions

Why are those lock, state, cache and pid directory files missing? I can't 
believe I'm supposed to create them myself ;) The testparm command was run as 
root, so it can't be a permissions problem.

Any more suggestions, please?

Bob
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