Process no longer exists (still after much hassle)

[Adam Tauno Williams]

Hardware: IBM Netfinity 5500, Dual PIII, 512Mb, IPS RAID

Network Information: The PDC is a Samba-2.2.1a box on RH 7.0 attached to the
same switch.  Clients are Win95, Win98, WinNTsp5, and Win2000pro.

Initial configuration: RedHat 7.0 and Samba 2.2.1a, stable as a rock

Upgraded to RH7.2+SGI/XFS (need ACL support),  with the same Samba 2.2.1a. 
Lotus 1-2-3 users reporting "File is corrupt" messages when trying to save,  but
otherwise everything seems to work.  

I tried turning off oplocks, but no luck.  I turned them back on.

In order to try and fix that I though I might just recompile,  but the Samba's
won't compile on RH7.2 due to some fsstat define thing.  

So I try going back to an older Samba, 2.0.7.  I remove the 2.2.1a RPM and
install the 2.0.7 RPMS,  these install happily and start.

The Lotus 1-2-3 user no longer recieve any errors,  but after a while M$-Office
users are unable to save *their* files!

I tried turning off oplocks, but no luck.  I turned them back on.

So I check for error messages, and check cables, surf the net, et al.  And I
find my error messages (below) referenced but no fix suggested.  

So I think, maybe it isn't really Samba, but a system problem.  I upgrade to the
very latest GLIBC available from 2.2.4-19.3 and the kernel 2.4.14 from
kernel.org with the XFS 1.0.2 patch applied. 

But I still have the exact same problem.  Any assistance would be greatly
appreciated (I've been using Samba since 1.9.15 and never had a problem anywhere
near this bad).

2002/01/16 11:08:01, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection(550)
  pc01696 (192.168.1.125) connect to service sls_apps as user kvasher (uid=266,
gid=205) (pid 5874)
[2002/01/16 11:08:01, 0] locking/locking_shm.c:shm_get_share_modes(213)
  get_share_modes: process 5558 no longer exists
[2002/01/16 11:08:01, 0] locking/locking_shm.c:shm_get_share_modes(241)
  get_share_modes: file with dev 811 inode 16473 empty
[2002/01/16 11:08:01, 0] locking/locking_shm.c:shm_get_share_modes(213)
  get_share_modes: process 5558 no longer exists
[2002/01/16 11:08:01, 0] locking/locking_shm.c:shm_get_share_modes(241)
  get_share_modes: file with dev 811 inode 16472 empty
[2002/01/16 11:08:01, 0] locking/locking_shm.c:shm_get_share_modes(213)
  get_share_modes: process 5558 no longer exists
[2002/01/16 11:08:01, 0] locking/locking_shm.c:shm_get_share_modes(241)
  get_share_modes: file with dev 811 inode 16390 empty
[2002/01/16 11:08:02, 0] locking/locking_shm.c:shm_get_share_modes(213)
  get_share_modes: process 5558 no longer exists
[2002/01/16 11:08:02, 0] locking/locking_shm.c:shm_get_share_modes(241)
  get_share_modes: file with dev 811 inode 16462 empty
[2002/01/16 11:08:02, 0] locking/locking_shm.c:shm_get_share_modes(213)
  get_share_modes: process 5558 no longer exists
[2002/01/16 11:08:02, 0] locking/locking_shm.c:shm_get_share_modes(241)
  get_share_modes: file with dev 811 inode 991845 empty
[2002/01/16 11:08:03, 0] locking/locking_shm.c:shm_get_share_modes(213)
  get_share_modes: process 5558 no longer exists
[2002/01/16 11:08:03, 0] locking/locking_shm.c:shm_get_share_modes(241)
  get_share_modes: file with dev 811 inode 991857 empty
[2002/01/16 11:08:03, 0] locking/locking_shm.c:shm_get_share_modes(213)
  get_share_modes: process 5558 no longer exists
[2002/01/16 11:08:03, 0] locking/locking_shm.c:shm_get_share_modes(241)
  get_share_modes: file with dev 811 inode 991854 empty
[2002/01/16 11:08:03, 0] locking/locking_shm.c:shm_get_share_modes(213)
  get_share_modes: process 5558 no longer exists
[2002/01/16 11:08:03, 0] locking/locking_shm.c:shm_get_share_modes(241)
  get_share_modes: file with dev 811 inode 991932 empty
[2002/01/16 11:08:03, 0] locking/locking_shm.c:shm_get_share_modes(213)
  get_share_modes: process 5558 no longer exists
[2002/01/16 11:08:03, 0] locking/locking_shm.c:shm_get_share_modes(241)
  get_share_modes: file with dev 811 inode 991913 empty
[2002/01/16 11:08:03, 0] locking/locking_shm.c:shm_get_share_modes(213)
  get_share_modes: pr

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