samba fails to start at boot after 15.04 upgrade

[Tessa]

After upgrading to 15.04 from 14.10, Samba no longer starts at boot. I suspect it's related to the switch to systemd, as attempting to set it to start using the systemd tools results in a bunch of error messages:

root@c1:~# systemctl enable samba
Synchronizing state for samba.service with sysvinit using update-rc.d...
Executing /usr/sbin/update-rc.d samba defaults
initctl: Unable to connect to Upstart: Failed to connect to socket /com/ubuntu/upstart: Connection refused
The script you are attempting to invoke has been converted to an Upstart
job, but lsb-header is not supported for Upstart jobs.
Executing /usr/sbin/update-rc.d samba enable
update-rc.d: error: samba Default-Start contains no runlevels, aborting.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: samba 2:4.1.13+dfsg-4ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-23.24-generic 3.19.8-ckt2
Uname: Linux 3.19.0-23-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1.1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Jul 25 16:09:47 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-11-09 (258 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Release amd64 (20141022.2)
OtherFailedConnect: Yes
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
 TERM=screen
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SambaServerRegression: Yes
SmbConfIncluded: No
SourcePackage: samba
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to vivid on 2015-07-25 (0 days ago)

[Tessa (unit3)]

Can't find any systemd specific init scripts for samba, either:

root@c1:/etc/systemd# find . | grep samba
root@c1:/etc/systemd# find . | grep smb
root@c1:/etc/systemd# find . | grep nmb

[Robie Basak (racb)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

On my test on Vivid, /lib/systemd/system/samba.service exists, is a symlink to /dev/null, and causes "sudo systemctl start samba" to output "Failed to start samba.service: Unit samba.service is masked.". Instead, /etc/init.d/{smbd,nmbd} work directly, and "sudo systemdctl {start|stop} {smbd|nmbd}" both appear to work correctly. On reboot, smbd and nmbd are both started correctly.

So it seems that I cannot reproduce, though I haven't tried an upgrade for Utopic. Do you have a previous customised version of /etc/init.d/samba that you have not updated for Vivid?

Please provide steps to reproduce, and once done, change the bug status back to New. Thanks!

[Robie Basak (racb)]

I tried an upgrade from Utopic and still can't reproduce. /lib/systemd/system/samba.service still exists, is a symlink to /dev/null, and causes "sudo systemctl start samba" to output "Failed to start samba.service: Unit samba.service is masked.".

[Tessa (unit3)]

Huh, I'm seeing the same behaviour as you now:

nergdron@c1:~⟫ ls -l /lib/systemd/system/samba.service
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Apr 3 14:32 /lib/systemd/system/samba.service -> /dev/null
nergdron@c1:~⟫ sydi 0u^C
130 nergdron@c1:~⟫ sudo -i
[sudo] password for nergdron:
root@c1:~# systemctl start samba
Failed to start samba.service: Unit samba.service is masked.
root@c1:~# update-rc.d samba defaults

I can't explain the behaviour I was seeing on the weekend, there must have been some other interactions on my box I can't reproduce now. I guess this is not a bug, thanks!

[N3tD3vil (n3td3vil)]

This is Not Bug!
Use it:

root@N3tD3vil:~# update-rc.d smbd enable
root@N3tD3vil:~# update-rc.d nmbd enable

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for samba (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Maimon Mons (mmcmonster)]

Not the original poster, but I have the same problem. I get:

/etc/systemd $ sudo update-rc.d smbd enable
update-rc.d: warning: start runlevel arguments (none) do not match smbd Default-Start values (2 3 4 5)
update-rc.d: warning: stop runlevel arguments (none) do not match smbd Default-Stop values (0 1 6)
 System start/stop links for /etc/init.d/smbd do not exist.