some additional info: despite the message that it creates the case tables, it doesn't do that actually.

If the case tables are put there manually, then it stops with the following in debug level 10:

ERROR: Failed to initialise messages database: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
messaging_tdb_init failed: NT_STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND

and strace:

stat64("/usr/local/samba/var/locks", 0xbfb18950) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
mkdir("/usr/local/samba/var/locks", 0755) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/local/samba/var/locks/messages.tdb", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_LARGEFILE, 0600) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
fstat64(2, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0600, st_rdev=makedev(136, 1), ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb6832000
_llseek(2, 0, 0xbfb18530, SEEK_CUR)     = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek)
write(2, "tdb(/usr/local/samba/var/locks/m"..., 158) = 158
munmap(0xb6832000, 4096)                = 0
fstat64(2, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0600, st_rdev=makedev(136, 1), ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb6832000
_llseek(2, 0, 0xbfb186c0, SEEK_CUR)     = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek)
write(2, "ERROR: Failed to initialise mess"..., 85) = 85
munmap(0xb6832000, 4096)                = 0
fstat64(2, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0600, st_rdev=makedev(136, 1), ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb6832000
_llseek(2, 0, 0xbfb18710, SEEK_CUR)     = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek)
write(2, "messaging_tdb_init failed: NT_ST"..., 59) = 59
munmap(0xb6832000, 4096)                = 0
exit_group(1)                           = ?

I think this one is my fault - failing to open the messaging database. I'll fix this asap.

Jeremy.

Created attachment 6131 [details]
Fix I've applied.

Actually not my bug. Metze or Guenther I'm afraid :-).

Jeremy.

Fixed with commit.
Jeremy.

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