Another showstopper in 2.2.5
Fredrik Ohrn
ohrn at chl.chalmers.se
Mon Aug 12 04:21:00 GMT 2002
Ok, here's another showstopper I have started to get alot over the last
week.
Average user complains that that he can't open Word/Excel/PowerPoint
document foo because it is already opened by another (unknown) user.
But he had no problems working with the document some time ago.
This happens a lot with Win98 clients and sometimes with WinXP but it's
not as common.
After some digging I have figured out that the samba process serving the
document the first time is dead BUT according to smbstatus samba still
thinks the process is alive and the file locked...
A small example:
[root at olivia ~]# /usr/local/samba/bin/smbstatus | grep lottab
lottab lottab stdvgl 6887 studv-5-118 (129.16.xxx.xxx) Mon Aug 12 08:31:16 2002
6490 DENY_WRITE 0x1 RDONLY NONE /olivia/home3/stdvgl/lottab/netscape/rpclsvc_se.dll Mon Aug 12 08:16:33 2002
6490 DENY_NONE 0x3 RDWR NONE /olivia/home3/stdvgl/lottab/eudora/EudPriv/Ads/Eudora.idx Mon Aug 12 08:16:38 2002
<... lots more nixed ...>
Lets look for pid 6490
[root at olivia ~]# ps -ef | grep 6490
root 7240 7150 0 08:40 pts/4 00:00:00 grep 6490
Not found! Lets look for the username instead:
[root at olivia ~]# ps -ef | grep lottab
lottab 6887 18504 0 08:31 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/samba/bin/smbd -D
Look mom! A new smbd process is now serving this user.
There is no trace what so ever in the logfile on why the smbd died.
Tonight I'll see if I can figure out a way to force the problem and use
the panic action to get more clues. Does anyone have a good recepie for
'panic action' that just dumps a backtrace into a logfile?
Regards,
Fredrik
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Fredrik Öhrn Chalmers University of Technology
ohrn at chl.chalmers.se Sweden
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