[CentOS] 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5xen hangs Samba daemon

[Anne Wilson]

On Friday 27 June 2008 13:18, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> Brett Serkez wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > I have a fresh CentOS 5.2 server that I am just starting to customize,
> > it is very close to stock.
> >
> > This morning I ran yum update:
> >
> > =========================================================================
> >==== Installing:
> >  kernel-xen              i686       2.6.18-92.1.6.el5  updates           
> > 15 M Updating:
> >  samba                   i386       3.0.28-1.el5_2.1  updates           
> > 16 M samba-client            i386       3.0.28-1.el5_2.1  updates        
> >   4.9 M samba-common            i386       3.0.28-1.el5_2.1  updates     
> >      8.7 M
> >
> > After rebooting, Samba would not start, running 'service smb start'
> > simply hangs forever, nothing in the logs I could find and I could see
> > from ps that smbd was never forking to release the start script.
> >
> > I discovered that if I boot using the previous kernel
> > 2.6.18-92.1.1.el5xen all is well.
> >
> > I did try regressing samba by uninstalling and then installing
> > disabling the updates repo to no avail, the older version (1.1) of
> > Samba was installed when I tried booting the older kernel, which did
> > work, as well as the updated version (1.6).
>
> OK ... a quick look through the upstream bugzilla does not show any
> samba (smb) hangs related to the new kernel.
>
>
> Can someone else confirm this problem ?

I'm running 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5.bz_pre53 and samba is working for me.  There was 
an rpmnew question during the update.  Could that be the problem?

Anne