We're still experiencing this issue. I've observed a couple of things during the latest event.
I mentioned before that netstat -a shows many smb processes in CLOSE_WAIT state when this problem occurs. I happened to strace on a process that was stuck in "recvfrom(1315,". When I killed this process many of the hung smb processes terminated and the Samba service was responding again. I've noticed the following error in the messages file: Dec 13 18:16:20 valhalla smbd[18005]: [2004/12/13 18:16:20, 0] tdb/tdbutil.c:tdb_log(725) Dec 13 18:16:20 valhalla smbd[18005]: tdb(/var/cache/samba/locking.tdb): tdb_lock failed on list 99 ltype =0 (Resource deadlock avoided) This particular error showed up prior to samba being restarted. When the service is restarted many of these show up in the log. I also notice that many times during an event the messages file contains the following errors: Dec 13 19:29:33 valhalla smbd[28820]: domain_client_validate: Domain password server not available. Dec 13 19:29:33 valhalla smbd[28820]: [2004/12/13 19:29:33, 0] auth/auth_domain.c:domain_client_validate(17 0) Not sure if this is a coincidence. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
