[Samba] smbd wont start

[Rolf Schmidt]

Hi Tim,

ok, then the tdb's seem to be fine. Maybe you could post the
/var/log/samba/log.smbd from the try to start smbd? So we see
what happened before the panic. And also the
smb.conf? 

You said the machine was running for 9 month, but it
is Samba 3.0.23, so you did an update? Is the failure since the update?

Rolf

On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Tim wrote:

> On Friday 15 September 2006 07:42, you wrote:
> > Hi Tim,
> >
> > > Here the contents of /var/lib/samba
> > >
> > > Titan:/var/lib/samba# ls
> > > account_policy.tdb  ntforms.tdb     perfmon       secrets.tdb
> > > group_mapping.tdb   ntprinters.tdb  printers      share_info.tdb
> > > ntdrivers.tdb       passdb.tdb      registry.tdb
> >
> > Yep.
> >
> > tdbbackup -v group_mapping.tdb
> >
> > gives here:
> >
> > group_mapping.tdb : 16 records
> >
> > > and /var/run/samba
> > >
> > > Titan:/var/run/samba# ls
> > > lang_en.tdb  messages.tdb  nmbd.pid  perfmon  unexpected.tdb
> >
> > is the nmbd still running? But the smbd is not? If you use
> >
> > ps aux | grep nmbd
> 
> > is there a process? Otherwise you might have a stale pid, then you can just
> > delete the pid file and start the services again.
> 
> Titan:/var/lib/samba# ps aux | grep nmbd
> root      4792  0.0  0.1   5872  1380 ?        Ss   Sep13   
> 0:01 /usr/sbin/nmbd -D
> root     23882  0.0  0.0   1952   608 pts/1    R+   20:50   0:00 grep nmbd
> 
> I killed the nmbd process off and tried restarting both, nmbd started and smbd 
> failed
> 
> 
> >
> > > I assume when you typed NAME I should of used one of the .tdb files, but
> > > which one???
> >
> > Try first passwd.tdb
> 
> Titan:/var/lib/samba# tdbbackup -v group_mapping.tdb
> group_mapping.tdb : 13 records
> Titan:/var/lib/samba# tdbbackup -v passdb.tdb
> passdb.tdb : 51 records
> Titan:/var/lib/samba# tdbbackup -v ntdrivers.tdb
> ntdrivers.tdb : 1 records
> Titan:/var/lib/samba# tdbbackup -v ntprinters.tdb
> ntprinters.tdb : 4 records
> Titan:/var/lib/samba# tdbbackup -v registry.tdb
> registry.tdb : 48 records
> Titan:/var/lib/samba# tdbbackup -v share_info.tdb
> share_info.tdb : 1 records
> Titan:/var/lib/samba# tdbbackup -v ntforms.tdb
> ntforms.tdb : 0 records
> Titan:/var/lib/samba# tdbbackup -v secrets.tdb
> secrets.tdb : 1 records
> 
> 
> Still no Samba
> 
> Tim