[Samba] Fwd: Samba 4.1.9 - Could not find child error

[Volker Lendecke]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 07:14:20AM -0700, Krishna Harathi wrote:
> Resending, this did not make it yesterday.
> 
> Regards.
> Krishna Harathi
> 
> 
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> From: Krishna Harathi <kharathi at exablox.com>
> Date: Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 2:00 PM
> Subject: Samba 4.1.9 - Could not find child error
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> 
> 
> We are seeing this error in the logs every minute -
> 
> [2014/07/23 16:40:59.829260,  2, pid=13355]
> ../source3/smbd/server.c:437(remove_child_pid)
> 
>   Could not find child 19021 -- ignoring
> 
> I know there is an old bug/fix -
> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8269
> 
> smb.conf entries related to printer and printcap (disabled) -
> 
> load printers = no
> 
> printcap name = /dev/null
> 
> printcap cache time = 0
> 
> log level = 2
> 
> We want the log level to be 2. I see that the code - in Samba 4.1.9
> 
> if (child == NULL) {
> 
>                 /* not all forked child processes are added to the children
> list */
> 
>                 DEBUG(2, ("Could not find child %d -- ignoring\n",
> (int)pid));
> 
>                 return;
> 
>         }
> 
> Question - Given the log level we want, how can we prevent these errors in
> the log? Did I miss some parameter disabling printer/printcap completely?
> How do we stop forking these untracked processes?

Does "printing = bsd" help?

> Does Samba 4.1X continue to  use source3 code base (as seen in the log
> entry)?

Yes, it does. Samba 4.1 and also 4.2 use the smbd file
server that has been around forever. It is in source3/.
We might rename the source directory at some point in the
future, but this is definitely not in our focus :-)

Volker

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