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