smbd dead but pid file exists "frustration"

[Ken Rossman]

You are looking for the file smbd.pid in this case.  Shut down smbd  
and nmbd
(i.e. shut down samba), then look for smbd.pid and nmbd.pid, and  
delete them
when you find them.  If samba is shut down, these files should not  
exist.

Likely, they are in:

   SAMBATEMPLOC/lib/<servername>/*.pid

Where SAMBATEMPLOC is the location where Samba keeps temp files it needs
while running (e.g. /usr/lib/samba, /usr/local/samba, /var/lib/ 
samba), and
<servername> is the name of your Samba server host.

Ken

> Samba will not start on a server of mine:
>
>  sudo /sbin/service smb start
> Starting SMB services:                                     [  OK  ]
> Starting NMB services:                                     [  OK  ]
>
>  sudo /sbin/service smb status
> smbd dead but pid file exists
> nmbd (pid 13503) is running...
>
> cat smb.conf
> [global]
>         workgroup = global
>         server string = Samba Server Version %v
>         netbios name = devserver
>         server string = Samba Server
>         username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
>         read only = No
>         local master = No
>         dos filetime resolution = yes
>
> [tmp]
>         path = /tmp
>
> testparm
> Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf
> Processing section "[tmp]"
> Loaded services file OK.
> Server role: ROLE_STANDALONE
>
> sudo /sbin/service smb stop
> Shutting down SMB services:                                [FAILED]
> Shutting down NMB services:                                [  OK  ]
>
> pwd
> /var/run
>
> ll | grep smb
> (nothong)
>
> Yet.. it still will not start.. sometimes it has.. but then  
> restarting it
> (with no changes to smb.conf) then it will not start.
>
> What gives?
>
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