Hi,
Having reset-up a print server from installation disks today, I did
something stupid and blindly copied the contents of /etc/samba from the
previous installation into the new installation.
Now smbd refuses to start (nmbd starts OK). I am currently using a blank
smb.conf file and the smb.conf file from the old installation. testparm
doesn't report any errors in the smb.conf from the old installation.
This is what I see in the shell when restarting smb:
/sbin/service smb restart
Shutting down SMB services: [FAILED]
Shutting down NMB services: [ OK ]
Starting SMB services: /etc/init.d/functions: line 83: 2945 Aborted
$nice $*
[FAILED]
Starting NMB services: [ OK ]
And this is the relevant part of the log file:
[2006/02/15 15:36:42, 0] lib/util.c:smb_panic2(1525)
BACKTRACE: 7 stack frames:
#0 smbd(smb_panic2+0x8a) [0x72507c]
#1 smbd(smb_panic+0x19) [0x7252c2]
#2 smbd(get_global_sam_sid+0x2bc) [0x6dd84c]
#3 smbd(init_guest_info+0x65) [0x76b6be]
#4 smbd(main+0x2a7) [0x7a6fb3]
#5 /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdf) [0x408d5f]
#6 smbd [0x5a54f1]
[2006/02/15 15:47:21, 0] smbd/server.c:main(798)
smbd version 3.0.14a-2 started.
Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2004
[2006/02/15 15:47:21, 0] passdb/secrets.c:secrets_init(64)
Failed to open /etc/samba/secrets.tdb
[2006/02/15 15:47:21, 0] passdb/secrets.c:secrets_init(64)
Failed to open /etc/samba/secrets.tdb
[2006/02/15 15:47:21, 0] passdb/secrets.c:secrets_init(64)
Failed to open /etc/samba/secrets.tdb
[2006/02/15 15:47:21, 0] passdb/machine_sid.c:pdb_generate_sam_sid(176)
pdb_generate_sam_sid: Failed to store generated machine SID.
[2006/02/15 15:47:21, 0] lib/util.c:smb_panic2(1517)
PANIC: Could not generate a machine SID
[2006/02/15 15:47:21, 0] lib/util.c:smb_panic2(1525)
BACKTRACE: 7 stack frames:
#0 smbd(smb_panic2+0x8a) [0x31c07c]
#1 smbd(smb_panic+0x19) [0x31c2c2]
#2 smbd(get_global_sam_sid+0x2bc) [0x2d484c]
#3 smbd(init_guest_info+0x65) [0x3626be]
#4 smbd(main+0x2a7) [0x39dfb3]
#5 /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdf) [0x6a5d5f]
#6 smbd [0x19c4f1]
I sent this to the Samba lists first for advice. One suggestions was
that secrets.tbd couldn't be loaded. I verified that the file was there
and had the correct permissions:
# ls -l /etc/samba
total 24
-rw------- 1 root root 8192 Aug 30 15:15 secrets.tdb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 15 15:30 smb.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 97 May 2 2005 smbusers
I was then asked to run the following commands and post the output:
smbd -d 10 -i
and
strace -e trace=open smbd -d 0 -i
The output from which is here:
http://ecrc2.geog.ucl.ac.uk/samba/smbd.txt
and
http://ecrc2.geog.ucl.ac.uk/samba/strace.txt
Which indicate that smbd is starting when run like this, but not from
the init.d scripts.
Can anyone see what is wrong and how I can rectify this problem?
Thanks in advance,
Gav
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