'Very strange: couldn't stat "."'...

[Jorge Gonzalez Villalonga]

Bruce Tenison wrote:
> 
> Hello!  What I did to solve this on my machine was to isolate the code that
> generates this error message.  I believe it is around line 405 of
> lib/doscalls.c in samba version 2.0.3  I then modified it to read:
>     DEBUG(0,("Very strange, couldn't stat \".\" path is %s\n", path));
> 
> Then recompiled and restarted.  My problem was that my home directory for
> the user root was not executable by all.  Once I did a chmod a+x /root I
> haven't received these errors any more.   Hope this helps!
> 
> Bruce
>

Thanks, Bruce, it worked after all. I'm sending the reply CC'ed to the
list, so that if anyone more has the same problem, he can fix it.

Question is, why on earth does SMBD need x permission on root's
directory...

Thanks.
Jorge

> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba at samba.org [mailto:samba at samba.org]On Behalf Of Jorge
> Gonzalez Villalonga
> Sent: Monday, March 15, 1999 8:44 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: 'Very strange: couldn't stat "."'...
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have just subscribed and this is my first post to the list. I
> apologize if this topic has been addresed already, but I dug the list
> archives and found one person which had my same problem (or so I think),
> but no responses. Here it is:
> 
> I have a medium sized machine (P-2 266, 256 RAM, 36 Gb HD) which is
> serving four classrooms, about 70 Pcs, with Samba. The Os installed in
> the clients is NTWS4SP3. I'm having (among others) the problem mentioned
> in the subject: my logs are full of messages like this:
> 
> Very strange, couldn't stat "."
> 
> I don't know if it's a serious problem, but I just started to get it
> today. It was mixed with thousands (;-) of "request_oplock_break: no
> response received to oplock break request...[etc]", which made me
> shutdown and restart the smbd three or four times.
> 
> Although the "request_oplock_break..." messages are now gone, and I
> don't need to restart smbd every three minutes, the "couldn't stat..."
> ones are not, and they keep generating at a quiet, but continuous rate.
> 
> I have read that it might be related to faulty network connections, and
> I have somehow isolated a faulty printer server (which is I assume the
> oplock messages have gone away), but I keep receiving the stat
> messages...
> 
> My samba version is 1.9.18pl10, and my system is RedHat 5.2 with Linux
> 2.2.1, all 2.2 updates applied.
> 
> Any help would be _GREATLY_ appreciated, since this is a very sensitive
> machine, and I can't afford even the slightest downtime...
> 
> TIA
> Jorge
> 
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> Jorge Gonzalez  <jorgegv at icai.upco.es>       -o)
> ICAI - Universidad Pontificia Comillas       /\\
> Administrador de Sistemas                   _\_v

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Jorge Gonzalez  <jorgegv at icai.upco.es>       -o)
ICAI - Universidad Pontificia Comillas       /\\
Administrador de Sistemas                   _\_v