[CentOS] Odd failure of smbd to start from init.d - CentOS 5.4
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Thu May 20 23:40:26 UTC 2010
On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 19:35 -0400, Whit Blauvelt wrote:
> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 03:50:20PM -0700, Craig White wrote:
>
> > not until you run the command as suggested much earlier...
> >
> > /usr/sbin/smbd -iF
> >
> > which will launch it iteractively and output everything to standard out
> > - the console itself and then let us know what it says.
>
> Hi Craig,
>
> /usr/sbin/smbd -D as reported earlier works. The problem is when it's
> started from the /etc/init.d/smb script in the normal way.
>
> But to be sure:
>
> # /usr/sbin/smbd -iF
> smbd version 3.0.33-3.28.el5 started.
> Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2008
>
> That's all that shows, it stops there. It's running at first:
>
> # ps aux | grep smbd
> root 10268 0.0 0.0 135576 4568 pts/0 S+ 19:14 0:00 /usr/sbin/smbd -iF
>
> ... for a few minutes. Then it goes away. But there's no message as to why
> it's failed to show anything more on the open console. But the process is
> gone. Does that tell us anything yet?
>
> On the other hand, a /usr/sbin/smbd -D started process is fully persistent.
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sounds like a hardware issue - have you run memtest86 on this computer?
Craig
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