Package: samba Version: 2:3.4.3-1 Severity: normal invoke-rc.d samba restart results in no running smbd process.
This arises when I have an smbd process that has grown outlandishly (to 1G in the most recent case). After I execute the restart command the terminal shows the usual stop and start messages for smbd and nmbd. However, ps still shows the old process running. After awhile, that process dies, leaving me with no running smbd. The "real" problem is the huge footprint of smbd, reported in Debian bug 558453 (my report is message 24 and subsequent) and upstream at https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7020. However, this seems to indicate the restart logic isn't quite right, probably assuming that after n seconds the stop has killed all the processes. Terminal capture: corn:/usr/local/src/tools# date; ps -lC smbd Tue Jan 5 10:52:00 PST 2010 F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN TTY TIME CMD 5 S 0 22402 1 0 80 0 - 3904 - ? 00:00:00 smbd 5 S 0 22403 22402 0 80 0 - 3984 - ? 00:00:00 smbd 5 S 65534 22646 22402 5 80 0 - 235916 - ? 00:04:41 smbd corn:/usr/local/src/tools# # sz is in block, so that's probably 1.2G (bigger than ksysguard shows, which is 973M corn:/usr/local/src/tools# invoke-rc.d samba restart Stopping Samba daemons: nmbd smbd. Starting Samba daemons: nmbd smbd. corn:/usr/local/src/tools# date; ps -lC smbd Tue Jan 5 10:55:20 PST 2010 F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN TTY TIME CMD 5 D 0 22646 1 5 80 0 - 243957 - ? 00:04:51 smbd # old process still running after stop and start # but it eventually shuts down, leaving nothing corn:/usr/local/src/tools# date; ps -lC smbd Tue Jan 5 11:02:36 PST 2010 F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN TTY TIME CMD Note that I built samba from sid source on a lenny system, bring in other sid packages as needed for compile and installation (e.g., libpam0g and other pam packages). -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.3 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages samba depends on: ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups ii debconf [debcon 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy ii libacl1 2.2.47-2 Access control list shared library ii libattr1 1:2.4.43-2 Extended attribute shared library ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcap2 2.11-2 support for getting/setting POSIX. ii libcomerr2 1.41.3-1 common error description library ii libcups2 1.3.8-1+lenny7 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii libgnutls26 2.4.2-6+lenny2 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr ii libkrb53 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-5lenny1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries ii libldap-2.4-2 2.4.11-1+lenny1 OpenLDAP libraries ii libpam-modules 1.1.0-4 Pluggable Authentication Modules f ii libpam-runtime 1.1.0-4 Runtime support for the PAM librar ii libpam0g 1.1.0-4 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libpopt0 1.15-1 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii libwbclient0 2:3.4.3-1 Samba winbind client library ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii procps 1:3.2.7-11 /proc file system utilities ii samba-common 2:3.4.3-1 common files used by both the Samb ii update-inetd 4.31 inetd configuration file updater ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime Versions of packages samba recommends: ii logrotate 3.7.1-5 Log rotation utility Versions of packages samba suggests: ii ctdb 1.0.108-2 clustered database to store tempor pn ldb-tools <none> (no description available) ii openbsd-inetd [inet-superse 0.20080125-2 The OpenBSD Internet Superserver pn smbldap-tools <none> (no description available) -- debconf information: samba/tdbsam: false samba/generate_smbpasswd: true samba/run_mode: daemons -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
