Problems with a dying winbindd daemon

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On Wednesday 12 December 2001 07:20, m.o.tigchelaar at kpn.com wrote:

> Currently i am having problems with the Winbindd daemon - it seems to die
> silently... Here is what i did:
>
> i compiled samba 2.2.2 the way it should be done according to the
> "winbind.html" file from the docs dir. When i start smbd, nmbd and winbindd
> everything works fine. It is possible to see the users and groups from the
> NT primary domain and trusted domain. Shared files can be accessed by users
> over the network. Nothing seems to be wrong.
>
> Then all at a sudden it does not work anymore! It turns out that the
> Winbindd daemon simply dies on me (when i do a "ps-ef" the winbindd daemon
> is not among the running processes...) I have to stop all the remaining
> Samba related daemons (smbd, nmbd) and start the whole bunch again (smbd,
> nmbd and winbindd) to get things up and running again. Simply re-starting
> the winbindd daemon does not work.
>
> Does anyone have any idea on how i can solve this problem? Am i doing
> something wrong? As i think of it - maybe i should run the winbindd with
> debugging enabled.

winbindd once was OOM-killed on my box, and it was a test box with zero load!

I'll try to find maintainer and help him make it work better.
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