[CentOS] 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5xen hangs Samba daemon

Fri Jun 27 12:18:34 UTC 2008
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

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 ?

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