[Samba] Samba4 spawns many /usr/sbin/smbd --configfile

[Caleb O'Connell]

Thanks for that info.  I'll see if I can get some info to send along to the developers.  Whats the best place to send that info?


Michael Wood wrote:

> Hi
> 
> On 26 September 2012 17:18, Caleb O'Connell
> <caleb at privacyassociation.org> wrote:
>> I have no idea why, occasionally one of my samba4 servers won't respond
>> to my RSAT tools on windows 7.  I check the server and when I do a   ps
>> -aux  I see many lines just like the following:
>>
>>
>> root     28073  0.0  0.0   2132    52 ?        S    00:11   0:00
>> /bin/sleep 999999999
> [...]
> 
> This indicates that Samba has crashed and has called "sleep 999999999"
> as the panic action.
> 
> This is to allow you to attach a debugger to the parent process and
> get a stack trace (assuming you compiled with ./configure.developer).
> 
> You should be able to do something like this:
> 
> Use "ps axl" to get the parent process ID (PPID) of one of the sleep
> processes.  (e.g. 12345)
> 
> Then:
> 
> # gdb /usr/local/samba/sbin/samba
> (gdb) attach 12345
> (gdb) bt full
> 
> That might tell the Samba developers what caused the crash.
> 
>> I usually just reboot that server and it's all good again.
>>
>> I'm using samba4 beta6 I believe on this machine.
> 
> Run /usr/local/samba/sbin/samba --version to get the exact version.
>