[Samba] Unable to initialize messaging context!

[Rowland penny]

On 30/10/2019 18:40, Rich Webb via samba wrote:
> Contrary to best practices, on my boxes I'm always root so it is doing this when run as root.  I'm getting the error for the daemon also when run as a system service in systemd.

Hmm, if I run smbclient as a normal user (output cut for brevity), I get 
this:

rowland at devstation:~$ smbclient -L localhost -N
Unable to initialize messaging context
Anonymous login successful

But if I use sudo, I get this:

rowland at devstation:~$ sudo smbclient -L localhost -N
[sudo] password for rowland:
Anonymous login successful

>
> Configure line:
> ./configure \
> --disable-cups \
> --without-ldb-lmdb \
> --prefix=/opt/samba \
> --sysconfdir=/etc/samba \
> --localstatedir=/var \
> --with-systemd \
> --systemd-install-services \
> --with-logfilebase=/var/log/samba
>
> Here is the command run with -d3:
> #> ./samba -i -d3
> lpcfg_load: refreshing parameters from /etc/samba/smb.conf
> samba version 4.11.2 started.
> Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2019
> GENSEC backend 'gssapi_spnego' registered
> GENSEC backend 'gssapi_krb5' registered
> GENSEC backend 'gssapi_krb5_sasl' registered
> GENSEC backend 'spnego' registered
> GENSEC backend 'schannel' registered
> GENSEC backend 'naclrpc_as_system' registered
> GENSEC backend 'sasl-EXTERNAL' registered
> GENSEC backend 'ntlmssp' registered
> GENSEC backend 'ntlmssp_resume_ccache' registered
> GENSEC backend 'http_basic' registered
> GENSEC backend 'http_ntlm' registered
> GENSEC backend 'http_negotiate' registered
> GENSEC backend 'krb5' registered
> GENSEC backend 'fake_gssapi_krb5' registered
> register_process_model: PROCESS_MODEL 'single' registered
> register_process_model: PROCESS_MODEL 'standard' registered
> register_process_model: PROCESS_MODEL 'prefork' registered
> AUTH backend 'sam' registered
> AUTH backend 'sam_ignoredomain' registered
> AUTH backend 'anonymous' registered
> AUTH backend 'winbind' registered
> AUTH backend 'name_to_ntstatus' registered
> AUTH backend 'unix' registered
> ldb_wrap open of privilege.ldb
> Unable to create directory /var/lock for file msg.lock. Error was File exists
> exit_daemon: daemon failed to start: Samba failed to setup parent messaging, error code -1073741801
>
> Could be the /var/lock thing but the directory exists and with root privileges it should be able to create msg.lock.  Not sure why that is happening.

Is there a file called 'msg.lock' in /var/lock ?

Rowland