[lug] samba won't start

[John Karns]

On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, John Karns said:

> On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Jason Davis said:
>
> > hi,
> > wont start anymore....when i enter samba start it goes therough saying it
> > started smbd and nmbd ok but then when i enter samba status it say
> > neither service is running...this is the
> > same smb.conf file i have always used...any suggestions?
>
> I had a smimilar problem with samba about a week ago, including the status
> return code saying OK at startup, but it was failing to start.  I deleted
> stale pid locks, etc, to no avail.  I never did figure out exactly what
> was causing the problem.  Although I hadn't made any changes to the init
> script (/etc/init.d/smb), I copied a script from another box running the
> same distro.  It then started working.

After a little more thought, I believe that the reason for the fix was
that I had upgraded (via a tar ball rather than the distro's rpm format)
from the distro's original install of samba 2.0.7 to 2.2.2 on the box with
the start failure problem.  The box I copied from was running a newer
version of the same distro which had installed samba 2.2.0.

So to summarize, I think there may be an incompatability in the startup
scripts for samba 2.0x and 2.2x releases.  If you've recently upgraded
samba, you may want to check that.

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John Karns                                        jkarns at csd.net