Samba does not start.

[reneve59]

Hi,

I've been running a F10 based Samba Server a few months without trouble. Now, after an update, samba is not working any more. When I try to start it manually, it reports the following error:

[root@hawkeye ~]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start
Starting SMB services: /bin/bash: line 1: 3403 Aborted (core dumped) smbd -D [FAILED]
[root@hawkeye ~]#


I've re-installed all samba packages and configure the smb server again from scratch but the problem was not solved. My samba packages are:

[root@hawkeye samba]# rpm -q --all | grep samba
samba-winbind-3.2.8-0.27.fc10.i386
samba-client-3.2.8-0.27.fc10.i386
samba-3.2.8-0.27.fc10.i386
system-config-samba-1.2.67-3.fc10.noarch
samba-common-3.2.8-0.27.fc10.i386

and the samba log file after trying to start samba is:

[root@hawkeye samba]# tail -f log.smbd
[2009/04/08 09:24:38, 0] smbd/server.c:main(1210)
smbd version 3.2.8-0.27.fc10 started.
Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2009
[2009/04/08 09:24:38, 0] lib/messages_local.c:messaging_tdb_init(96)
ERROR: Failed to initialise messages database: No such file or directory
[2009/04/08 09:24:38, 0] lib/messages.c:messaging_init(204)
messaging_tdb_init failed: NT_STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND
[2009/04/08 09:24:38, 0] lib/util.c:smb_panic(1670)
PANIC (pid 3403): Could not init smbd messaging context
[2009/04/08 09:24:38, 0] lib/util.c:log_stack_trace(1774)
BACKTRACE: 6 stack frames:
#0 smbd(log_stack_trace+0x2d) [0x90fbfd]
#1 smbd(smb_panic+0x2d) [0x90fcfd]
#2 smbd [0xb5087c]
#3 smbd(main+0x501) [0xb52601]
#4 /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe5) [0xd2c6e5]
#5 smbd [0x6decf1]
[2009/04/08 09:24:38, 0] lib/fault.c:dump_core(201)
dumping core in /var/log/samba/cores/smbd


Need your help, I've no idea how to solve the problem.

Regards

 

[smah]

Check all the files & paths mentioned in /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb. I think that you'll find a wrong path or a path that doesn't exist for some reason.

 

[Smilinjb]

Hi,

Did you manage to resolve this issue? I, myself, am now having the exact same issue

James

 

[reneve59]

Hi Smilinjb,

Finally I made a backup of my data and reinstalled Fedora 10 from scratch, and now Samba is working normally. I did not find out what happened.

Currently I'm using Fedora 10 (kernel 2.6.27.24), KDE 4.2.3 and samba 3.2.11.

Hope this helps.

Regards.