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

[Michael Wood]

On 26 September 2012 18:15, Caleb O'Connell
<caleb at privacyassociation.org> wrote:
> 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?

Well, the Samba4 HOWTO still says the samba-technical list, so I
suppose there :)

> 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.

-- 
Michael Wood <esiotrot at gmail.com>