[Samba] Re: Cannot start samba

[Bruno Pinaud]

Thanks for your answer. 
I looked in the source code, and perhaps this can be due to a bad glibc 
version ? i have glibc 2.2.5 on my server. is this ok ?

Le Jeudi 25 Septembre 2003 11:00, Vincent.Badier at alcatel.fr a écrit :
> >> Does the /usr/local/samba-3.0.0rc4/var/locks/ directory exists? Witch
> >
> >yes it does.
>
> Sorry, i didn't read the code enought. The error would not be the same.
>
> >same problem with both...
>
> This is normal, since pid files are handle by samba itself
>
> >Perhaps it's related to my kernel but actually samba 2.2.2 is working...
>
> I don't think so, since the error tell us that pid files can not be locked.
>
> >[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
>
> I think the error is reported by the fcntl() system call. I don't know
> about the reason. "Invalid argument" seems not to be related to a problem
> on the file system, nor the kernel ressources. However, i never saw this
> error on my own servers, so this sould not be a bad argument passing to the
> function.
>
> This error thus astonishes me much and i'm also insterested by the real
> reason.
>
> --
> Vincent

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