[Samba] Unable to initialize messaging context!

[Rich Webb]

No, it's as if it can't create the file for some reason... permissions are 755 on that directory - owned by root.

Thanks, 
Rich

----- On Oct 30, 2019, at 3:08 PM, samba samba at lists.samba.org wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
> 
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