Same error once again.

Thomas Cameron archimage at linux-magic.com
Tue May 1 02:13:12 GMT 2001


I dunno if this helps, but I have a $SAMBAHOME/var/locks directory. 
Maybe this is missing?

Thomas

Trevor Benson wrote:
> 
> I just built a brandnew Redhat 7.1 server. I installed the RPM package from
> ftp.samba.org <ftp://ftp.samba.org>  and after I run the smbd and nmbd I
> still end up with this error below. I have checked this list, and gone
> through the Project Doc's and the FAQ's. Nothing seems to reference the
> locking database not initializing.  Has anyone else had this issue?  On a
> fresh system with the RPM I wouldn't expect to have this much trouble,
> that's why I left the old server as is and tried to move forward with a test
> box to see if I couldn't resolve this. Any help or idea's would be
> appreciated. The log.smbd and nmbd have NOTHING in them at this point. Im
> not really sure what to do.
> 
> Samba version 2.2.0
> Service      uid      gid      pid     machine
> ----------------------------------------------
> 
> Failed to open byte range locking database
> ERROR: Failed to initialise locking database
> Can't initialise locking module - exiting
> 
> Thanks,
> Trevor Benson
> Director of Information Technology
> Associated Business Products
> 
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