On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 02:03:01PM +0200, �ric le h�naff wrote: > how to get a better stack backtrace ? Complile with -g on you command line and add a panic action = /bin/sleep 999999 in the [global] section of your smb.conf. When smbd panics, attach to the parent process of the sleep process with gdb and type "bt" to get a backtrace. Jeremy.