[Samba] Unable to start Samba on AIX 6.1

[Jeremy Allison]

On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 04:42:49PM +0000, neetesh.gupta at accenture.com wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
>                 I have installed the SAMBA 3.2.0.0 on my AIX 6.1 machine. While I am starting nmbd process, I am getting below error.
> 
> [2012/03/08 20:52:20,  0] nmbd/nmbd.c:main(849)
>   nmbd version 3.2.0 started.
>   Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2008
> [2012/03/08 20:52:20,  0] lib/interface.c:load_interfaces(517)
>   ERROR: Could not determine network interfaces, you must use a interfaces config line
> 
> 
>             While I added the below two lines in my smb.conf file
> 
>        interfaces = en2
>        bind interfaces only = yes
> 
>            nmbd is crashing with below error.
> 
> [2012/03/08 20:44:45,  0] nmbd/nmbd.c:main(849)
>   nmbd version 3.2.0 started.
>   Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2008
> [2012/03/08 20:44:46,  0] lib/interface.c:load_interfaces(540)
>   WARNING: no network interfaces found
> [2012/03/08 20:44:46,  0] nmbd/nmbd_subnetdb.c:create_subnets(205)
>   create_subnets: No local interfaces !
> [2012/03/08 20:44:46,  0] nmbd/nmbd_subnetdb.c:create_subnets(206)
>   create_subnets: Waiting for an interface to appear ...
> [2012/03/08 20:44:51,  0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(40)
>   ===============================================================
> [2012/03/08 20:44:51,  0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(41)
>   INTERNAL ERROR: Signal 11 in pid 46203380 (3.2.0)
>   Please read the Trouble-Shooting section of the Samba3-HOWTO
> [2012/03/08 20:44:51,  0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(43)
> 
>   From: http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba3-HOWTO.pdf
> [2012/03/08 20:44:51,  0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(44)
>   ===============================================================
> [2012/03/08 20:44:51,  0] lib/util.c:smb_panic(1666)
>   PANIC (pid 46203380): internal error
> [2012/03/08 20:44:51,  0] lib/util.c:log_stack_trace(1820)
>   unable to produce a stack trace on this platform
> [2012/03/08 20:44:51,  0] lib/fault.c:dump_core(201)
>   dumping core in /var/cores/nmbd

3.2.0 is a very old, unsupported release. Is there a
chance you can install the latest 3.6.3 release instead ?

Jeremy.