[Samba] Runaway nmbd Process - Help!

[John Blue]

Ok. I have managed to stop the looping. I have now removed the 
entries inetd.conf and this appears to have been the problem.

John

> I am running SuSE V 8 with KDE 3 and had a memory problem when the
> screen would lose icons, taskbars etc. I am very much a newbie and
> everything was going along smoothly, even managed to get Cups up and
> running and printing across the small Lan to a windows printer.
> 
> The problem is being caused by nmbd starting up in a loop causing
> dozens of instances to run each with their own PID until such time as
> memory is exhausted (I have 512Mb Ram and wondered what was
> happening).
> 
> Samba was running OK until this happened. I have managed to kill all
> nmbd processes. If I reboot this starts again, I have also shutdown
> and powered off, restarting again and the cycle goes on.
> 
> I noted in the small console window on startup an error message: nmbd
> is already running.
> 
> From the System log there are lines reading (sorry I can't copy/paste
> from the linux box so this I hope are the essential bits):
> 
> Sep 
> 11...penguin:nmbd[1266];[2002....]nmbd/asyncdns.c:start_async_dns(148)
> Sep 11...penguin:nmbd[1266]: started asyncdns process 1267
> ....penguin:nmbd[1266]; [2002...] lib/pidfile.c:pidfile_create(86)
> ....penguin:nmbd[1266]:  ERROR: nmbd is already running. File
> //var/run/samba/nmbd.pid exists and process id 714 is running. Sep
> ...penguin inetd[883]:/usr/sbin/nmbd: exit status 0x1
> 
> The log then has repeated similar detail.
> 
> So my problem is how to find my error and then stop the nmbd process
> from looping? 
> 
> Any advice most welcome and appreciated.
> 
> John
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