Bug 1444028

Summary: [SAMBA-RHEL6]Unable to start smbd in RHEL6 as /run/smbd.pid does not exist
Product: [Red Hat Storage] Red Hat Gluster Storage Reporter: Vivek Das <vdas>
Component: sambaAssignee: Michael Adam <madam>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Vivek Das <vdas>
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Version: rhgs-3.3CC: amukherj, gdeschner, rcyriac, rhs-smb
Target Milestone: ---Keywords: Regression
Target Release: RHGS 3.3.0   
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Fixed In Version: samba-4.6.3-0.el6rhs Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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Last Closed: 2017-09-21 04:46:03 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Vivek Das 2017-04-20 12:57:48 UTC
Description of problem:
Unable to start smbd as there is no directory /run in RHEL6 and smbd.pid is redirected to that directory.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
samba-client-4.6.2-0.el6rhs.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Update samba to 3.3.0 packages
2.Try starting smbd
3.

Actual results:
Fails

Expected results:
Should start smoothly

Additional info:
Apr 20 18:08:09 dhcp43-15 smbd[10696]:   ERROR: can't open /run/smbd.pid: Error was No such file or directory
Apr 20 18:08:30 dhcp43-15 smbd[10726]: [2017/04/20 12:38:30.094635,  0] ../lib/util/pidfile.c:111(pidfile_create)
Apr 20 18:08:30 dhcp43-15 smbd[10726]:   ERROR: can't open /run/smbd.pid: Error was No such file or directory

Comment 15 Vivek Das 2017-05-03 03:43:40 UTC
Irrespective of the bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1446325
i am able to start smbd over RHEL6 with the latest Rebase and was able to do a mount on windows machine. So marking this as verified.

Comment 19 errata-xmlrpc 2017-09-21 04:46:03 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2778