Last week I hit a problem interacting with a server running samba 2.2.3a. I could mount a share and write to a file ( checked with "date >> file" ), but other operations ( "touch file") failed with an IO error after a rather length pause. I had just rebooted recently using the 2.6.9-1.6_FC2, so I tried rebooting using the previous kernel, 2.6.9-1.3_FC2. After the reboot the problem not longer occurred.
a couple of coworkers that use gentoo have been having the same symptoms. They're running a 2.6.9 kernel, too.
The only clues so far are the above mentioned reboot to older kernel and this log message :
SMB connection re-established (-5) smb_trans2: invalid data, disp=0, cnt=0, tot=0, ofs=0 smb_add_request: request [dcfc9e40, mid=11564] timed out!
provided by one of my coworkers.
It's been suggested that upgrading samba on the server might help, but since it's a critical system I'd rather know that that would solve the problem instead of just trying things.
Anyone seen a problem like this? Any suggestions on isolating where the problem is?
thanks, ~Rob
