ERROR: root did not create the semaphore

Fran ç ois HECKLER francois.heckler at est.transiciel.com
Thu Dec 20 09:02:03 GMT 2001


I start Samba process smbd and nmbd correctly
But smbstatus did not run, it return :
# ./smbstatus

Samba version 2.0.5a
Service      uid      gid      pid     machine
----------------------------------------------

ERROR: root did not create the semaphore
ERROR: Failed to initialise share modes
Can't initialise shared memory - exiting             


Here is an extract of log.smb :
[2001/12/20 17:22:54, 1] smbd/server.c:(628)
  smbd version 2.0.5a started.
  Copyright Andrew Tridgell 1992-1998
[2001/12/20 17:22:54, 1] smbd/files.c:(216)
  file_init: Information only: requested 10000 open files, 100 are available.
[2001/12/20 17:23:49, 0] locking/shmem_sysv.c:(597)
  ERROR: root did not create the semaphore
[2001/12/20 17:23:49, 0] locking/locking.c:(174)
  ERROR: Failed to initialise share modes
[2001/12/20 17:23:49, 0] locking/shmem_sysv.c:(597)
  ERROR: root did not create the semaphore
[2001/12/20 17:23:49, 0] locking/locking.c:(174)
  ERROR: Failed to initialise share modes                       

We use Samba 2.0.5 on an SCO Release 5.0.5, Kernel rel=3.2 
128Mo RAM

Can you give me some orientation in my problem ?
Is it a memory space problem or something like this ?

Thanks for your help





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Francois Heckler
Transiciel Regions Lorraine
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francois.heckler at est.transiciel.com
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