[Samba] samba4.2.0 crashes on connection attempt with an internal samba error...

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Hello Roland,

> >
> 
> OK, not really one to give up, I installed jessie in another VM and 
> compiled samba 4.2 again and then tried to get samba & systemd to work 
> together. I finally got systemd to start the samba daemons, 
>
> OK what idiot decided that the program PIDs *MUST* go in /run ???? even though 

Blame freedesktop.org and LSB 3.x for *that* Design(s).
Near All Distro Maintainters follow that way ... more or less ..
... I agree that some of the Designs are looks stupid - but this are offtopic samba.

/var/run is an symlink of /run on jessie (debian 8.x).

~: # df
Dateisystem    1K-Blöcke Benutzt Verfügbar Verw% Eingehängt auf
rootfs          30304204 2792592  26229992   10% /
/dev/root       30304204 2792592  26229992   10% /
devtmpfs          376896       0    376896    0% /dev
tmpfs              76240     224     76016    1% /run
tmpfs               5120       0      5120    0% /run/lock
tmpfs             152460       0    152460    0% /run/shm
/dev/boot         57288   14696     42592   26% /boot
~: # 

# ls -ld /var/run
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jan 30 01:14 /var/run -> /run


> samba hardcodes them to go into /usr/local/samba/var/run.

creating sufficent symlink(s) from /run to /usr/local/samba/var/run solve this on Jessie.

> 
> Rowland
> -- 

you'll discover  some more distro "Design Changes " after playing with samba4 on jessie ...


regards

Horst