nmbd fails to start with locking error on ctdb/samba upgrade

[Amitay Isaacs]

On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 9:06 AM, Steve French <smfrench at gmail.com> wrote:

> Looks like upgrade was from 4.5 from a few months ago to current 4.5 -
> so shouldn't have been an issue.
>
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 3:55 PM, Steve French <smfrench at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Anyone run into something like this (in upgrading to 4.5-latest
> > ctdb/samba/nmbd)?
> >
> > nmbd fails to start with "invalid argument" on g_lock_tdb.2
> >
> > ctdb log info:
> >
> > 2017/02/10 23:29:37.569727 [82260]: 50.samba: Redirecting to
> > /bin/systemctl start  nmb.service
> > 2017/02/10 23:29:37.592666 [82260]: 50.samba: Job for nmb.service
> > failed because the control process exited with error code. See
> > "systemctl status nmb.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
> > 2017/02/10 23:29:37.593127 [82260]: 50.samba: Failed to start nmbd
> > 2017/02/10 23:29:37.593372 [82260]: startup event failed
> > 2017/02/10 23:29:42.594314 [82260]:
> > ../ctdb/server/ctdb_takeover.c:2198 Released 0 public IPs
> > 2017/02/10 23:29:42.594355 [82260]: Running the "startup" event.
> > 2017/02/10 23:29:42.752275 [82260]: 50.samba: Could not open tdb
> > /var/lib/ctdb/g_lock.tdb.2: Invalid argument
> > 2017/02/10 23:29:42.752297 [82260]: 50.samba: failed to attach to ctdb
> > g_lock.tdb
> > 2017/02/10 23:29:42.752305 [82260]: 50.samba: g_lock_ctx_init failed
> > 2017/02/10 23:29:42.752309 [82260]: 50.samba: failed to attach to ctdb
> > registry.tdb
> > 2017/02/10 23:29:42.752443 [82260]: 50.samba: Could not open tdb
> > /var/lib/ctdb/g_lock.tdb.2: Invalid argument
> > 2017/02/10 23:29:42.752455 [82260]: 50.samba: failed to attach to ctdb
> > g_lock.tdb
> > 2017/02/10 23:29:42.752463 [82260]: 50.samba: g_lock_ctx_init failed
> > 2017/02/10 23:29:42.752469 [82260]: 50.samba: failed to attach to ctdb
> > registry.tdb
> > 2017/02/10 23:29:42.752474 [82260]: 50.samba: Failed to initialize the
> > registry: WERR_INVALID_PARAM
> > 2017/02/10 23:29:42.752482 [82260]: 50.samba: Can't load
> > /etc/samba/smb.conf - run testparm to debug it
> > 2017/02/10 23:29:42.763661 [82260]: 50.samba: Redirecting to
> > /bin/systemctl start  nmb.service
> > 2017/02/10 23:29:42.785643 [82260]: 50.samba: Job for nmb.service
> > failed because the control process exited with error code. See
> > "systemctl status nmb.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
> > 2017/02/10 23:29:42.786060 [82260]: 50.samba: Failed to start nmbd
> > 2017/02/10 23:29:42.786224 [82260]: startup event failed
> >
> > The lockfile exists and is rather large at a size of 5206016:
> >
> > NR_10-23:31:16 p08 /var/log $ ls -al /var/lib/ctdb/g_lock.tdb.2
> > -rw------- 1 root root 5206016 Feb 10 23:31 /var/lib/ctdb/g_lock.tdb.2
> >
> >
> > --
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Steve
>
>
Do you have nmbd log at higher debug?

Amitay.