[Samba] stuck in a loop?

[James Kuo]

Hi Everyone, 

Just wondering if anyone has seen anything similar to this:

Jul 28 21:57:30 GATEWAY smbd[6681]:   open_directory: unable to stat name =
proc
/self/cwd/proc/self/cwd/proc/self/cwd/proc/self/cwd/proc/self/cwd/proc/self/
cwd/
proc/self/cwd/proc/self/cwd/proc/self/cwd/proc/self/cwd/proc/self/cwd/proc/s
elf/
cwd/proc/self/cwd/proc/self/cwd/proc/self/cwd/proc/
Jul 28 21:57:30 GATEWAY smbd[6681]: [2002/07/28 21:57:30, 0]
smbd/open.c:open_di
rectory(1110)
Jul 28 21:57:30 GATEWAY smbd[6681]:   open_directory: unable to stat name =
proc
/self/cwd/proc/self/cwd/proc/self/cwd/proc/self/cwd/proc/self/cwd/proc/self/
cwd/
proc/self/cwd/proc/self/cwd/proc/self/cwd/proc/self/cwd/proc/self/cwd/proc/s
elf/
cwd/proc/self/cwd/proc/self/cwd/proc/self/cwd/proc/
Jul 28 21:57:30 GATEWAY smbd[6681]: [2002/07/28 21:57:30, 0]
smbd/open.c:open_di
rectory(1110)

...<message repeats a kagillion times>...

Within a week's time of this stuff in the log (which stops eventually), all
the samba (2.2.5) shares started to lock up both the client workstations and
the server (Rhat 7.3).  Reboot seemed to stabilize the system, but this was
the first reboot in over 3 months with no problems up until now.

Weird.

Thanks, 

Jim Kuo
jkuo at musictelecom.com