more info on the nmbd problem

[Michael H. Warfield]

Gerald W. Carter enscribed thusly:
> On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Michael D. Ivey wrote:

> > > Michael H. Warfield (mhw at wittsend.com)
> > > Tue, 29 Sep 1998 10:29:56 -0400 (EDT) 

> > >         I've been noticing for some time that I've been having a problem 
> > > with nmbd and the latest snapshots. In particular, I've noticed that 
> > > after a while, nmbd disappears. More specifically, on the system I have 

> > I'm having the same problem...here's my trace:

> > [root at alice source]# nmbd -D; ps axf |grep nmb
> >  9816  ?  R    0:00 nmbd -D 
> >  9818  ?  R    0:00  \_ nmbd -D 
> > [root at alice source]# gdb
> > GNU gdb 4.17
> > Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
> > welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
> > Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
> > There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
> > This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux".
> > (gdb) attach 9816
> > Attaching to process 9816
> > 0x400d983e in ?? ()
> > (gdb) continue 
> > Continuing.

> > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> > 0x8055eb2 in ?? ()
> > (gdb) where
> > #0  0x8055eb2 in ?? ()
> > #1  0x80548bc in ?? ()
> > #2  0x8054ffa in ?? ()
> > #3  0x804ad1c in ?? ()
> > #4  0x804b8c8 in ?? ()
> > (gdb) 


> I think someone else send a backtrace from gdb as well, but just in
> case...

	Yeah...  I was the one with the other backtrace.  Looks like
Jeremy found the problem and shot it.  Check out the latest CVS source
and try again.  It's now fixed for me.

> Could you recompile gdb with the -g flag (for debugging support) and then
> perform the stpes you just did.  See what happens.




> j-
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>                             Gerald ( Jerry ) Carter	
> Engineering Network Services                           Auburn University 
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