Winbind service failing to start.

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Winbind service is failing to start with following error,
Jul 24 11:27:03 cpatil_test winbindd[12345]:  Failed to create /var/log/samba/cores for user 0 with mode 0700
Jul 24 11:27:03 cpatil_test winbindd[12345]: [2022/07/24 11:27:03.887300,  0] ../../source3/lib/dumpcore.c:257(dump_core_setup)
Jul 24 11:27:03 cpatil_test winbindd[12345]:  Unable to setup corepath for winbindd: File exists
Jul 24 11:27:03 cpatil_test systemd[1]: winbind.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jul 24 11:27:03 cpatil_test systemd[1]: winbind.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jul 24 11:27:03 cpatil_test systemd[1]: Failed to start Samba Winbind Daemon.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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