[CentOS] Odd failure of smbd to start from init.d - CentOS 5.4

On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 16:40 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> 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.
> ----
> sounds like a hardware issue - have you run memtest86 on this computer?
> 
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I should have added that there should be a core dump
in /var/log/samba/cores/smbd which if you could analyze, would give you
some hints

Craig


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