[Samba] Re: Cannot start samba

[Vincent.Badier at alcatel.fr]

Does the /usr/local/samba-3.0.0rc4/var/locks/ directory exists? Witch
account do you use to launch you init script? in case this is not root,
does it have suffisent permission?

Also, how about starting nmbd and smbd manually, with -D option?


>yes i'm using init.d (redhat style). samba is installed in
>/usr/local/samba-3.0.0rc4/. I've got a symbolic link to /usr/local/samba
>which is used by the init.d script.
>
>Le Mercredi 24 Septembre 2003 19:22, Matias Silva a écrit :
>> It looks like you are still trying to access the 3.0 version pid file
>>
>>  > /usr/local/samba-3.0.0rc4/var/locks/nmbd.pid failed. Error was
Invalid
>>  > argument
>>
>> How are you starting and stopping samba?  Are you using init.d?
>>
>> Matias
>>
>> Bruno Pinaud wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > I currently have an old samba 2.2.2 on my network. It's working, but
it's
>> > quite old...
>> > I tried version 3.0.0rc4 but it doesn't want to start. Here are the
>> > errors :
>> >
>> > [2003/09/23 18:27:45, 8] lib/util.c:fcntl_lock(1621)
>> >   fcntl_lock 6 13 0 1 1
>> > [2003/09/23 18:27:45, 3] lib/util.c:fcntl_lock(1632)
>> >   fcntl_lock: fcntl lock gave errno 22 (Invalid argument)
>> > [2003/09/23 18:27:45, 3] lib/util.c:fcntl_lock(1651)
>> >   fcntl_lock: lock failed at offset 0 count 1 op 13 type 1 (Invalid
>> > argument) [2003/09/23 18:27:45, 0] lib/pidfile.c:pidfile_create(97)
>> >   ERROR: nmbd : fcntl lock of file
>> > /usr/local/samba-3.0.0rc4/var/locks/nmbd.pid failed. Error was Invalid
>> > argument
>> >

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Vincent