shm_open (667) & locking_init(174), not 2.3.xx kernel
Peter Samuelson
peter at cadcamlab.org
Tue Aug 8 06:22:31 GMT 2000
[Joel Burton <joel at scw.org>]
> This weekend, we upgraded our server to Linux-Mandrake 7.1, which
> uses a (slightly customized by Mandrake) 2.2.15 kernel. Since then,
> users are unable to log in, and log.smb shows
>
> locking/shmem_sysv_shm_open(667). Can't create or use use IPC area. Error
> was File exists
> locking/locking.c:locking_init(174). ERROR: Failed to initialise share
> modes
Hmmmmmmmm. You're right, this has nothing to do with the 2.3.x problem
you've heard about. (That problem is very specific to 2.3/2.4, a side
effect of Al Viro's recent reorganization of half the VFS.)
According to `man shmget',
EEXIST is returned if IPC_CREAT | IPC_EXCL was
specified and the segment exists.
This is happening in `locking/shmem_sysv.c' where it fails to create
the shm segment after it has failed to open an existing one.
My guess is that the segment exists. Stop Samba, type `ipcs' and see
if shared memory segment 0x280267 is sitting around. If so, remove it
with `ipcrm 0x280267'. Then restart Samba.
Peter
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