[Samba] Samba won't start on Centos 7 built from tarball

[Rowland Penny]

On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 09:58:02 -0500
"samba.x.eliezer613--- via samba" <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Hi, not having much luck getting samba 4.8.3 to start on a CentOS 7.6
> VM....
> 
> used samba-4.8.3.tar.gz
> ./configure
> make
> make install

So everything will be in /usr/local/samba

> samba-tool domain provision --use-rfc2307 --interactive
> 
> In /etc/samba there is one file, smb.conf with content of:

What about the one in /usr/local/samba/etc ?

> # Global parameters
> [global]
>         dns forwarder = 192.168.25.1
>         netbios name = DC1
>         realm = DC1.INTERNAL
>         server role = active directory domain controller
>         workgroup = REDACTED
>         idmap_ldb:use rfc2307 = yes
> 
> [netlogon]
>         path = /var/lib/samba/sysvol/dc1.internal/scripts
>         read only = No
> 
> [sysvol]
>         path = /var/lib/samba/sysvol
>         read only = No
> 
> service samba start fails

Have you altered the binary path in the systemd service file and are
you using the correct service file ?

> 
> # journalctl -xe
> Feb 20 09:47:57 dc1.internal samba[23330]:   ldb: module schema_load
> initialization failed : Operations error
> Feb 20 09:47:57 dc1.internal samba[23330]: [2019/02/20
> 09:47:57.069992, 0] ../lib/ldb-samba/ldb_wrap.c:77(ldb_wrap_debug)

Wrong lib, did you set up PATH ?

> Feb 20 09:47:57 dc1.internal samba[23330]:   ldb: module
> dsdb_notification initialization failed : Operations error
> Feb 20 09:47:57 dc1.internal samba[23330]: [2019/02/20
> 09:47:57.070024, 0] ../lib/ldb-samba/ldb_wrap.c:77(ldb_wrap_debug)
> Feb 20 09:47:57 dc1.internal samba[23330]:   ldb: module rootdse
> initialization failed : Operations error
> Feb 20 09:47:57 dc1.internal samba[23330]: [2019/02/20
> 09:47:57.070053, 0] ../lib/ldb-samba/ldb_wrap.c:77(ldb_wrap_debug)
> Feb 20 09:47:57 dc1.internal samba[23330]:   ldb: module samba_dsdb
> initialization failed : Operations error
> Feb 20 09:47:57 dc1.internal samba[23330]: [2019/02/20
> 09:47:57.070081, 0] ../lib/ldb-samba/ldb_wrap.c:77(ldb_wrap_debug)
> Feb 20 09:47:57 dc1.internal samba[23330]:   ldb: Unable to load
> modules for /var/lib/samba/private/sam.ldb: schema_load_init:
> dsdb_get_schema failed Feb 20 09:47:57 dc1.internal samba[23330]:
> [2019/02/20 09:47:57.084584,
> 0] ../source4/smbd/server.c:638(binary_smbd_main) Feb 20 09:47:57
> dc1.internal samba[23330]:   binary_smbd_main: samba: using
> 'standard' process model Feb 20 09:47:57 dc1.internal samba[23330]:
> [2019/02/20 09:47:57.085333,
> 0] ../source4/smbd/service.c:112(server_service_startup) Feb 20
> 09:47:57 dc1.internal samba[23330]:   server_service_startup: Failed
> to start service 'rpc' - NT_STATUS_INVALID_SYSTEM_SERVICE Feb 20
> 09:47:57 dc1.internal samba[23330]: [2019/02/20 09:47:57.085585,
> 0] ../lib/util/become_daemon.c:124(exit_daemon) Feb 20 09:47:57
> dc1.internal samba[23330]:   exit_daemon: STATUS=daemon failed to
> start: Samba failed to start services, error code -1073741796 Feb 20
> 09:47:57 dc1.internal systemd[1]: samba.service never wrote its PID
> file. Failing. Feb 20 09:47:57 dc1.internal systemd[1]: Failed to
> start Samba AD Daemon. -- Subject: Unit samba.service has failed
> -- Defined-By: systemd
> -- Support:
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel --
> -- Unit samba.service has failed.
> --
> -- The result is failed.
> Feb 20 09:47:57 dc1.internal systemd[1]: Unit samba.service entered
> failed state.
> Feb 20 09:47:57 dc1.internal systemd[1]: samba.service failed.
> Feb 20 09:47:57 dc1.internal polkitd[2565]: Unregistered
> Authentication Agent for unix-process:23313:110714198 (system bus
> name :1.998, object path /org/fr
> Feb 20 09:48:02 dc1.internal polkitd[2565]: Registered Authentication
> Agent for unix-process:23335:110714706 (system bus name :1.999
> [/usr/bin/pkttyagent -
> Feb 20 09:48:02 dc1.internal polkitd[2565]: Unregistered
> Authentication Agent for unix-process:23335:110714706 (system bus
> name :1.999, object path /org/fr
> 
> Thanks!