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? > ---- 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 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.