[Samba] Re: Cannot start samba

[Matias Silva]

It looks like you are still trying to access the 3.0 version pid file

 > /usr/local/samba-3.0.0rc4/var/locks/nmbd.pid failed. Error was Invalid
 > argument

How are you starting and stopping samba?  Are you using init.d?

Matias

Bruno Pinaud wrote:
> Hi,
> I currently have an old samba 2.2.2 on my network. It's working, but it's 
> quite old...
> I tried version 3.0.0rc4 but it doesn't want to start. Here are the errors :
> 
> [2003/09/23 18:27:45, 8] lib/util.c:fcntl_lock(1621)
>   fcntl_lock 6 13 0 1 1
> [2003/09/23 18:27:45, 3] lib/util.c:fcntl_lock(1632)
>   fcntl_lock: fcntl lock gave errno 22 (Invalid argument)
> [2003/09/23 18:27:45, 3] lib/util.c:fcntl_lock(1651)
>   fcntl_lock: lock failed at offset 0 count 1 op 13 type 1 (Invalid argument)
> [2003/09/23 18:27:45, 0] lib/pidfile.c:pidfile_create(97)
>   ERROR: nmbd : fcntl lock of file 
> /usr/local/samba-3.0.0rc4/var/locks/nmbd.pid failed. Error was Invalid 
> argument
> 
> The server is a linux 2.4.17 (i cannot change the kernel). 
> Can you help me ?
>