[Samba] Unable to initialize messaging context!

[Rich Webb]

I added the two following options and samba is now running:

--with-lockdir=/var/lib/samba/lock
--with-piddir=/run/samba

Not sure why I needed to do that... last time I did this was with 4.9 and those parameters were not needed.

Rich

----- On Oct 30, 2019, at 6:44 PM, samba samba at lists.samba.org wrote:

> OK I recompiled with --with-lockdir=/var/lib/samba/lock and it's now getting
> further... now I'm getting this when I try to start the samba daemon:
> 
> Calling SPN name update script
> /opt/samba/sbin/winbindd: winbindd version 4.11.2 started.
> /opt/samba/sbin/winbindd: Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2019
> /opt/samba/sbin/winbindd: Failed to create directory /var/run for pid files -
> File exists
> samba_runcmd_io_handler: Child /opt/samba/sbin/winbindd exited 1
> winbindd daemon died with exit status 1
> task_server_terminate: task_server_terminate: [winbindd child process exited]
> samba_terminate: samba_terminate of samba 11462: winbindd child process exited
> 
> I'm not sure why it's trying to create the /var/run directory... should I use a
> different configure option to attempt to remedy that?
> 
> Thanks,
> Rich
> 
> ----- On Oct 30, 2019, at 3:19 PM, samba samba at lists.samba.org wrote:
> 
>> On 30/10/2019 19:10, Rich Webb via samba wrote:
>>> 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
>>>
>> Just checking, if it was there, that might have explained your problem.
>> 
>> I 'think' your problem is that your Samba is trying to put 'msg.sock'
>> into somewhere it shouldn't, can I suggest you have a look here:
>> https://github.com/nkadel/samba4repo
>> 
>> Rowland
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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