We've seen it when a Samba smbd session goes into a loop when someone, probably trying to back up his C drive, or store the family jpegs, runs the server out of space. The solution is to find the process ID with TOP and kill that session.
On Tuesday 14 September 2004 13:20, you wrote: > Do you know what specifically triggers the problem? I was just asked > if we could do samba..... > > > > > "Seader, Cameron" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > er.com> > To Sent by: Linux on [EMAIL PROTECTED] 390 Port > cc <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > IST.EDU> > Subject Re: Guest freeze > > 09/14/2004 08:33 > AM > > > Please respond to > Linux on 390 Port > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > IST.EDU> > > > > > > > Here is some more information about what we had discovered after > talking with SuSE. This problem was never resolved. > > Just an update on the bug found yesterday. I just got off the phone > talking with Novell's SUSE support department and we were able to > narrow down which package was causeing the conflict with the > openldap2-client library. Samba-2.2.8a has a service called nmb which > is the netbios service, which has hooks in the openldap2 library > files. We were able to narrow down to the service nmb when it is > started it causes a loop process to start in the kernel process > ksoftirqd_CPU0. This investigation has been sent off to the > Development labs at SUSE in Germany. They will either find a fix for > the current package and send that out globally, send us a beta > version of SLES 9 (which is on beta 2 right now), or they will have > us wait until SLES 9 is released. Another option is to download the > Samba 3.0 binaries and compile it for our platform ourselves, which > would go out of the support bounds for SUSE. > > -Cameron Seader > > -----Original Message----- > From: Troyski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 07:13 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Guest freeze > > > Hi all, > > Anybody seen the following conditions :- > > o VM linux guest hangs. No response to ssh or at 3270 console. Pings > from other servers (external and internal) ok though (?) > o VM CPU @ 100%. > o No VM paging. > o VM guys say linux is "looping". > > zSeries 800/SLES8 SP2 > > Would a linux guest memory issue cause this? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
