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

Fri May 21 11:49:16 UTC 2010
Kwan Lowe <kwan.lowe at gmail.com>

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 9:30 PM, Whit Blauvelt <whit at transpect.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 06:17:10PM -0700, Benjamin Franz wrote:
>
>> Have you looked in /var/log/messages for errors from smbd? I don't
>> remember seeing that anywhere in your T/S list.
>
> Yup. I've grepped all the logs. Nothing from smbd at all. I also enabled
> kern and daemon logs, just in case those would catch something messages
> wasn't. What they've caught isn't anything from smbd.
>
> I'm leaning towards it being, as suggested by someone, somehow symptom of a
> hardware problem, since it seems we've run through everything else remotely
> possible. I should have memtest86 results from a colleague soon. That it's
> been such an isolated problem, so consistent in its behavior, has made me
> think it must be something in the OS configuration. But that hypothesis is
> about played out.

My gut tells me it's not hardware but willing to take it :)

Have you tried adding a "set -x" to the top of the the smb startup
scripts?  I didn't see any such output in your replies so far.