[Samba] Error message about lock database

[Tony Molloy]

On Wednesday 26 September 2012 08:36:41 Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-09-19 at 11:51 +0100, Tony Molloy wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm running samba on a fully updated CentOS-6.3 box as a
> > fileserver exporting to Win7 clients.
> >
> > samba-3.5.10-125.el6.x86_64
> >
> >
> > Anybody got an idea what is causing the following error message.
> > It's filling up my logs.
> >
> > [2012/09/19 11:40:20.710031,  1]
> > smbd/server.c:267(remove_child_pid) Scheduled cleanup of brl and
> > lock database after unclean shutdown [2012/09/19 11:40:40.729746,
> >  1] smbd/server.c:240(cleanup_timeout_fn) Cleaning up brl and
> > lock database after unclean shutdown
> >
> > This is only seen on CentOS-6.3 a replacement server for
> > CentOS-5.8 an not on another CentOS-5.8 box. It doesn't seem to
> > affect samba working at least the students haven't complained ;-)
> 
> This is, despite the worrying message, probably normal.  If you
>  don't have any other indication that a samba subprocess has
>  crashed, it's probably just the prints spooler async client
>  exiting.  Until recently, this was erroneously triggered on every
>  child process we reaped, no matter if they were file server
>  processes or not.
> 
> Andrew Bartlett
> 

Thanks Andrew. As I said in my e-mail it didn't seem to affect samba 
working.


Tony