[Samba] Re: Cannot start samba

Bruno Pinaud bruno.pinaud at performanse.fr
Thu Sep 25 07:30:07 GMT 2003


Le Jeudi 25 Septembre 2003 08:42, Vincent.Badier at alcatel.fr a écrit :
> Does the /usr/local/samba-3.0.0rc4/var/locks/ directory exists? Witch
yes it does.
> account do you use to launch you init script? in case this is not root,
> does it have suffisent permission?
>
I'm using root.

> Also, how about starting nmbd and smbd manually, with -D option?
>

same problem with both...
Perhaps it's related to my kernel but actually samba 2.2.2 is working...

> >yes i'm using init.d (redhat style). samba is installed in
> >/usr/local/samba-3.0.0rc4/. I've got a symbolic link to /usr/local/samba
> >which is used by the init.d script.
> >
> >Le Mercredi 24 Septembre 2003 19:22, Matias Silva a écrit :
> >> 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
>
> --
> Vincent

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Bruno PINAUD
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