Samba won't start!

FLOODS · 01-17-2005, 04:08 PM

Samba's randomly stopped working. I don't know a lot of information to give, all of the logs look okay, and I'm using the latest kernel provided by yum updates. I don't recall upgrading it before it stopped working, since the yum log says the last upgrade to it was done on December 21st.

Code:

Dec 21 00:12:18 Updated: samba-common.i386 3.0.10-1.fc3
Dec 21 00:12:29 Updated: samba.i386 3.0.10-1.fc3
Dec 21 00:12:32 Updated: samba-client.i386 3.0.10-1.fc3

I uninstalled and reinstalled samba with no luck either.

Here's a cut from my samba.log

Code:

[2005/01/17 16:30:49, 0] smbd/server.c:main(760)
  smbd version 3.0.10-1.fc3 started.
  Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2004
[2005/01/17 16:31:06, 0] smbd/server.c:main(760)
  smbd version 3.0.10-1.fc3 started.
  Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2004
[2005/01/17 16:41:26, 0] smbd/server.c:main(760)
  smbd version 3.0.10-1.fc3 started.
  Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2004
[2005/01/17 17:03:55, 0] smbd/server.c:main(760)
  smbd version 3.0.10-1.fc3 started.
  Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2004

nmbd.lod and winbindd.log are both empty. dmesg shows nothing even relating to samba (wasn't expecting it) and boot.log only shows

Code:

Jan 16 14:27:51 fragility smb: smbd shutdown failed
Jan 16 14:27:51 fragility smb: nmbd shutdown failed

and messages only shows the same thing, saying

Code:

Jan 16 14:27:51 fragility smb: smbd shutdown failed
Jan 16 14:27:51 fragility smb: nmbd shutdown failed

When I run service smb start it just hangs, and if I cd to /etc/rc.d/init.d and ./smb start it does the same thing, just hangs.

service smb reload says it is unsuccessful when I try to reload the configuration, so I'm now just stuck. I've tried all of the kernels listed in Grub when I boot thinking maybe it was a kernel config problem (they're all stock kernels, though).

any ideas? I've been trying to tinker with it for a while now and have had 0 bit of success.

masand · 01-18-2005, 02:40 AM

hey have u worked on ur /etc/samba/smb.conf file ????

see what u get after running

testparm

regards

FLOODS · 01-18-2005, 05:53 AM

I did mess with it a small bit, but I restored my original after Samba wouldn't start, thinking that it was the cause. I've ran testparm on it before and it's still giving the same output, saying it's loading service files OK. here's the paste of it all..

Code:

Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf
Processing section "[homes]"
Processing section "[printers]"
Processing section "[Shared]"
Loaded services file OK.
Server role: ROLE_STANDALONE
Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions

and here's after hitting enter...

Code:

# Global parameters
[global]
        server string = FRAGILITY
        interfaces = eth0, wlan0
        encrypt passwords = No
        username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
        log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
        max log size = 50
        server signing = auto
        socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=8192 SO_RCVBUF=8192
        printcap name = /etc/printcap
        os level = 33
        preferred master = Yes
        domain master = Yes
        dns proxy = No
        wins support = Yes
        ldap ssl = no
        idmap uid = 16777216-33554431
        idmap gid = 16777216-33554431
        create mask = 0644
        hosts allow = 192.168.0., 127.
        cups options = raw

[homes]
        comment = Home Directories
        read only = No
        browseable = No
# was never sure why this one was here.. created by FC3 automatically. Never took it out.

[printers]
        comment = All Printers
        path = /var/spool/samba
        printable = Yes
        browseable = No

[Shared]
        comment = fragile's home
        path = /home/fragile/
        read only = No
        create mask = 0666
        directory mask = 0777
        guest ok = Yes

masand · 01-18-2005, 06:03 AM

when u fail to run samba
then run

tal /var/log/messages

to get the last log
which will help

also i do not hvae the interfaces string with my smb.conf
try commenting that too

regards

FLOODS · 01-18-2005, 09:48 AM

well holy crap, that was it.
I commented out the interfaces string and it worked fine. that's odd, because I've had it in there from the start.
I guess I'll have to keep that in mind if I see someone else in here with the same problem from now on..

Thanks for the help!

masand · 01-18-2005, 09:58 AM

good that it worked!!!!!!!!!!