LinuxQuestions.org - Boot problems after Karmic upgrade, Samba and OpenVPN not starting

From your posts I believe you will be able to interpret the logs as well as, if not better than, I could. /var/log is the path, the various dmesg files and syslog files will show your history. My daemon.log appears to have similar content to syslog.

I don't know whether it will help you to compare your startup scripts with mine (a recent install without significant modification). Here are 2 key areas, which might be a good starting point:

Code:

:/etc/rc5.d$ ls -l

total 4

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 677 2009-11-10 09:44 README

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  20 2009-12-14 20:31 S20kerneloops -> ../init.d/kerneloops

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  15 2009-12-25 11:45 S20samba -> ../init.d/samba

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  27 2009-12-14 20:31 S20speech-dispatcher -> ../init.d/speech-dispatcher

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  19 2009-12-14 20:31 S25bluetooth -> ../init.d/bluetooth

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  14 2009-12-14 20:31 S50cups -> ../init.d/cups

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  20 2009-12-14 20:31 S50pulseaudio -> ../init.d/pulseaudio

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  15 2009-12-14 20:31 S50rsync -> ../init.d/rsync

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  15 2009-12-14 20:31 S50saned -> ../init.d/saned

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  19 2009-12-14 20:31 S70dns-clean -> ../init.d/dns-clean

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  18 2009-12-14 20:31 S70pppd-dns -> ../init.d/pppd-dns

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  24 2009-12-14 20:31 S90binfmt-support -> ../init.d/binfmt-support

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  22 2009-12-14 20:31 S99acpi-support -> ../init.d/acpi-support

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  21 2009-12-14 20:31 S99grub-common -> ../init.d/grub-common

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  21 2009-12-14 20:31 S99laptop-mode -> ../init.d/laptop-mode

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  18 2009-12-14 20:31 S99ondemand -> ../init.d/ondemand

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  18 2009-12-14 20:31 S99rc.local -> ../init.d/rc.local

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  18 2009-12-14 22:11 S99timidity -> ../init.d/timidity

Take a look at samba, which is one of your problem areas:

Code:

:/etc/init.d$ cat samba

#!/bin/sh



### BEGIN INIT INFO

# Provides:          samba

# Required-Start:    $network $local_fs $remote_fs

# Required-Stop:    $network $local_fs $remote_fs

# Default-Start:    2 3 4 5

# Default-Stop:      0 1 6

# Should-Start:      slapd

# Should-Stop:      slapd

# Short-Description: start Samba daemons (nmbd and smbd)

### END INIT INFO





# Defaults

RUN_MODE="daemons"



# Reads config file (will override defaults above)

[ -r /etc/default/samba ] && . /etc/default/samba



PIDDIR=/var/run/samba

NMBDPID=$PIDDIR/nmbd.pid

SMBDPID=$PIDDIR/smbd.pid



# clear conflicting settings from the environment

unset TMPDIR



# See if the daemons are there

test -x /usr/sbin/nmbd -a -x /usr/sbin/smbd || exit 0



. /lib/lsb/init-functions



case "$1" in

        start)

                log_daemon_msg "Starting Samba daemons"

                # Make sure we have our PIDDIR, even if it's on a tmpfs

                install -o root -g root -m 755 -d $PIDDIR



                NMBD_DISABLED=`testparm -s --parameter-name='disable netbios' 2>/dev/null`

                if [ "$NMBD_DISABLED" != 'Yes' ]; then

                        log_progress_msg "nmbd"

                        if ! start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --oknodo --exec /usr/sbin/nmbd -- -D

                        then

                                log_end_msg 1

                                exit 1

                        fi

                fi



                if [ "$RUN_MODE" != "inetd" ]; then

                        log_progress_msg "smbd"

                        if ! start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --oknodo --exec /usr/sbin/smbd -- -D; then

                                log_end_msg 1

                                exit 1

                        fi

                fi



                log_end_msg 0

                ;;

        stop)

                log_daemon_msg "Stopping Samba daemons"

                log_progress_msg "nmbd"



                start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile $NMBDPID

                # Wait a little and remove stale PID file

                sleep 1

                if [ -f $NMBDPID ] && ! ps h `cat $NMBDPID` > /dev/null

                then

                        # Stale PID file (nmbd was succesfully stopped),

                        # remove it (should be removed by nmbd itself IMHO.)

                        rm -f $NMBDPID

                fi



                if [ "$RUN_MODE" != "inetd" ]; then

                        log_progress_msg "smbd"

                        start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile $SMBDPID

                        # Wait a little and remove stale PID file

                        sleep 1

                        if [ -f $SMBDPID ] && ! ps h `cat $SMBDPID` > /dev/null

                        then

                                # Stale PID file (nmbd was succesfully stopped),

                                # remove it (should be removed by smbd itself IMHO.)

                                rm -f $SMBDPID

                        fi

                fi



                log_end_msg 0



                ;;

        reload)

                log_daemon_msg "Reloading /etc/samba/smb.conf" "smbd only"



                start-stop-daemon --stop --signal HUP --pidfile $SMBDPID



                log_end_msg 0

                ;;

        restart|force-reload)

                $0 stop

                sleep 1

                $0 start

                ;;

        status)

                status="0"

                NMBD_DISABLED=`testparm -s --parameter-name='disable netbios' 2>/dev/null`

                if [ "$NMBD_DISABLED" != "Yes" ]; then

                        status_of_proc -p $NMBDPID /usr/sbin/nmbd nmbd || status=$?

                fi

                if [ "$RUN_MODE" != "inetd" ]; then

                        status_of_proc -p $SMBDPID /usr/sbin/smbd smbd || status=$?

                fi

                if [ "$NMBD_DISABLED" = "Yes" -a "$RUN_MODE" = "inetd" ]; then

                        status="4"

                fi

                exit $status

                ;;

        *)

                echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/samba {start|stop|reload|restart|force-reload|status}"

                exit 1

                ;;

esac



exit 0

For now, I won't add any more to this lengthy reply, but please let me know if it will help you to compare anything else.