Samba fails to start if the /var/run/samba folder is missing (like, for instance, when it's mounted by tmpfs on boot). Samba's initscript should check the folder and create it if missing. sys-apps/dbus initscript already has such a line, so I think it should be valid and easy to accomplish.
May be the following line must be added to the start() of the init script: [ ! -e /var/run/samba ] && mkdir /var/run/samba
Yup, that one would work just fine :)
+ 11 May 2010; Patrick Lauer <patrick@gentoo.org> files/samba-init: + Fixing init script for #301263 I hope that makes you happy :)
Yes, thanks :)
