[Intrepid] ./configure arguments need "--localstatedir=var"

[David McBride]

Binary package hint: samba4

The new samba4 packages do not function correctly; attempting to start smbd via the init script appears to succeed, but no smbd daemons are left running.

This is because the smbd binary is built with --localstatedir effectively equivalent to /usr/var, which does not exist. As a result, smbd terminates almost immediately after it begins execution.

This can be demonstrated by running `smbd --debug-stderr` as root:

# smbd --debug-stderr
smbd version 4.0.0alpha6-GIT-7e90cc1 started.
Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2008
ERROR: can't open /usr/var/run/samba/smbd.pid: Error was No such file or directory
#

Adding:

   --localstatedir=/var

... to the configure incantation in debian/rules _should_ fix the problem, I'm trying a test build now.

Cheers,
David

[Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)]

fwiw, this is fixed in the package in Debian experimental