Samba daemon will not start

[kuser]

testing kubuntu alpha jaunty.
samba was working fine for some time till updstes last weekend.
since than, samba wont start.
sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart >>looks ok but >> ps -e |grep smbd >>shows nothing.
nmbd not working either.

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.04

apt-cache policy samba
samba:
  Installed: 2:3.3.2-1ubuntu3
  Candidate: 2:3.3.2-1ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 2:3.3.2-1ubuntu3 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Thierry Carrez (ttx)]

Looks like it can't create the PID file in /var/run/samba.
Could you give me the output of the following command:
  ls -ld /var/run/samba
Thanks in advance.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

[stpin (mashley-gmail)]

Hi, I'm having the exact same issue. Can't find PID file.

mashley@linux:~$ ls -ld /var/run/samba
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 2009-08-20 22:09 /var/run/samba
mashley@linux:~$

One file in the directory:

mashley@linux:/var/run/samba$ ls -ltr
total 4
-rw------- 1 root root 696 2009-08-20 22:25 messages.tdb
mashley@linux:/var/run/samba$ sudo cat messages.tdb
[sudo] password for mashley:
TDB file
m↓☺&âmashley@linux:/var/run/samba$

Any ideas or workarounds?

It started when I first installed it. After reboot it failed to start.

[stpin (mashley-gmail)]

FYI... Here is the workaround. http://ubuntu-ky.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1167315

[Thierry Carrez (ttx)]

Not a bug in samba, then. It won't work if you give it a wrong configuration.
Note that this certainly originates from bug 378367, where kdenetwork-filesharing rewrites smb.conf entries with "file://" prefixes.