Re: [CentOS] Odd failure of smbd to start from init.d - CentOS 5.4

2010-05-20 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 03:50:20PM -0700, Craig White wrote: not until you run the command as suggested much earlier... /usr/sbin/smbd -iF which will launch it iteractively and output everything to standard out - the console itself and then let us know what it says. Hi Craig,

Re: [CentOS] Odd failure of smbd to start from init.d - CentOS 5.4

2010-05-20 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 06:49:33PM -0400, Kwan Lowe wrote: The service scripts can check for lock files. Do you have any stale locks in /var/run/subsys? Thanks Kwan. If I remove /var/run/smbd.pid (and /var/run/nmbd.pid for that matter), the init.d/smb file still fails to get smbd running

Re: [CentOS] Odd failure of smbd to start from init.d - CentOS 5.4

2010-05-20 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 04:40:26PM -0700, Craig White wrote: sounds like a hardware issue - have you run memtest86 on this computer? No, haven't. My experience with hardware issues is that they rarely introduce 100% repeatable software errors. This one is entirely consistent in its behavior,

Re: [CentOS] Odd failure of smbd to start from init.d - CentOS 5.4

2010-05-20 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 04:44:20PM -0700, Craig White wrote: I should have added that there should be a core dump in /var/log/samba/cores/smbd which if you could analyze, would give you some hints As you might expect at this point, that's a totally empty directory. The lack of a core dump

Re: [CentOS] Odd failure of smbd to start from init.d - CentOS 5.4

2010-05-20 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 07:58:19PM -0400, Ryan Manikowski wrote: Tell them to join the debian-users list and see what kind of intelligent discussion goes on there. They will be back to Centos in a week. =) Too true! Whit ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Odd failure of smbd to start from init.d - CentOS 5.4

2010-05-20 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 04:55:29PM -0700, Jerry Franz wrote: I would start by comparing the values of all the environment variables between running as /bin/sh and /bin/bash: env bash_env.txt /bin/sh env sh_env.txt exit diff bash_env.txt sh_env.txt Jerry, That's a good idea. To

Re: [CentOS] Odd failure of smbd to start from init.d - CentOS 5.4

2010-05-20 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 06:17:10PM -0700, Benjamin Franz wrote: Have you looked in /var/log/messages for errors from smbd? I don't remember seeing that anywhere in your T/S list. Yup. I've grepped all the logs. Nothing from smbd at all. I also enabled kern and daemon logs, just in case those

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