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.
** Changed in: samba (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Invalid
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Samba daemon will not
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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.
** Changed in: samba (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Incomplete
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Samba daemon will not start
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http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25665377/syslog
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