[Samba] Samba freezes

[Rowland Penny]

On Mon, 26 Jun 2017 09:34:35 +1200
Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 2017-06-25 at 17:54 +0100, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> > On Sun, 25 Jun 2017 18:11:05 +0200
> > Antoine Huchet via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > I have Samba 4.5.8-Debian running on Debian Stretch.
> > > I use Samba to load games over my local network from my Debian
> > > machine to my Playstation 2 (using OpenPS2Loader:
> > > https://github.com/Jay-Jay-OPL/OPL-Daily-Builds).
> > > 
> > > From time to time, the game freezes, then after 5 minutes it comes
> > > back (sometimes it doesn't, depends on the game).
> > > 
> > > 
> > > And here is the syslog at the same time:
> > > 
> > > > Jun 25 16:39:01 serveur CRON[23116]: (root) CMD (  [ -x
> > > > /usr/lib/php5/sessionclean ] && /usr/lib/php5/sessionclean)
> > > > Jun 25 16:41:05 serveur dhclient[717]: DHCPREQUEST of
> > > > 192.168.2.4 on eth0 to 192.168.2.1 port 67
> > > > Jun 25 16:41:05 serveur dhclient[717]: DHCPACK of 192.168.2.4
> > > > from 192.168.2.1
> > > > Jun 25 16:41:05 serveur systemd[1]: Reloading Samba SMB Daemon.
> > > > Jun 25 16:41:05 serveur systemd[1]: Reloaded Samba SMB Daemon.
> > > > Jun 25 16:41:05 serveur dhclient[717]: bound to 192.168.2.4 --
> > > > renewal in 2912 seconds.
> > > 
> > > From what I see, there is the usual stuff on top of the logs,
> > > then it start echoing someting, then reloads and then it works
> > > again...
> > > 
> > > Any idea what might be causing that?
> > > 
> > 
> > It looks like your Samba machine is using DHCP and when it changes
> > systemd reloads Samba, this will break any connections.
> > 
> > Try giving your machine a fixed IP instead.
> > 
> 
> G'Day Rowland,
> 
> I think you are on to the right thing about the echo and DHCP, except
> they are in other order.  

Hi Andrew,

The PC asks for an IP
The PC gets the IP
Systemd restarts Samba

I thought it was fairly obvious what the problem was, but you seem to
see it differently, what I cannot understand, why is systemd restarting
Samba ?

Rowland