On Friday 14 February 2003 07:35 am, Buchan Milne wrote:
> James Sparenberg wrote:
> > On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 02:51, Buchan Milne wrote:
> >>Probably a misconfigured samba and the fact that we start/stop smbd and
> >>nmbd together. So, /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb stops smbd, tries to stop nmbd
> >>and fails (was not running or had a name conflict or something like
> >>that), and since both killprocs did not succeed, it does not remove the
> >>lock file, so it is run again.
> >
> > this is the hard part. Since I'm in a shutdown situation how do I check
> > to see if the lockfile is getting removed or not.
>
> What happens if you stop samba manually? Or if you init 1?
>
> >>I guess we should put a check in to see if nmbd and smbd are really
> >>running, but it may be better to leave the error so the user knows they
> >>have something to fix?
> >
> > This is the thing... what is the fix. Samba is working quite well so
> > I'm pretty sure the config is good. (printing shares etc are solid.) I
> > really don't do much more than use samba to print on a windows box at
> > home.
>
> Weird ... will have to bounce a few machines to test, but I do not
> remember seeing this ...
>
> Buchan
on one of the mail lists this was worked thru and I believe it had to do with
the persistant mount point started by some other GUI like Gnomba or
linneighborhood.
