Re: Strange Samba problem

Hey everybody,

         I just obtained a new data point that sheds (a little) light 
on the problem.

         I upgraded the machine that was generating these errors from 
NetBSD 3.1 to NetBSD 4.0 and the error messages went away.

                 -lars


At 10:12 AM 1/9/2008, Lars Friend wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>         I am having a strange problem with Samba.  I built and 
> installed Samba 3.0.26a from pkgsrc on a NetBSD 3.1 machine 
> (running the stock release GENERIC kernel), and for the most part 
> it works fine, except for one thing:
>
>If I connect up and browse all shares (like going to \\net9vm\ in an 
>explorer window on an XP box), it displays them all fine, and I can 
>connect and use them as expected, but I noticed that every time I 
>connect and browse like that, something like this appears in the 
>/var/log/log.smbd file:
>
>[2008/01/09 05:02:59, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection(1191)
>   lfriend-note1 (66.152.127.240) couldn't find service .
>[2008/01/09 05:03:00, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(1033)
>   lfriend-note1 (66.152.127.240) connect to service lfriend 
> initially as user lfriend (uid=2276, gid=101) (pid 5137)
>[2008/01/09 05:03:00, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(1033)
>   lfriend-note1 (66.152.127.240) connect to service ports initially 
> as user lfriend (uid=2276, gid=101) (pid 5137)
>[2008/01/09 05:03:00, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(1033)
>   lfriend-note1 (66.152.127.240) connect to service tools initially 
> as user lfriend (uid=2276, gid=101) (pid 5137)
>[2008/01/09 05:03:00, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(1033)
>   lfriend-note1 (66.152.127.240) connect to service www-customer 
> initially as user lfriend (uid=2276, gid=80) (pid 5137)
>[2008/01/09 05:03:00, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(1033)
>   lfriend-note1 (66.152.127.240) connect to service www-documents 
> initially as user lfriend (uid=2276, gid=80) (pid 5137)
>[2008/01/09 05:03:00, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(1033)
>   lfriend-note1 (66.152.127.240) connect to service www-files 
> initially as user lfriend (uid=2276, gid=80) (pid 5137)
>[2008/01/09 05:03:00, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(41)
>   ===============================================================
>[2008/01/09 05:03:00, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(42)
>   INTERNAL ERROR: Signal 6 in pid 5137 (3.0.26a)
>   Please read the Trouble-Shooting section of the Samba3-HOWTO
>[2008/01/09 05:03:00, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(44)
>
>   From: http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba3-HOWTO.pdf
>[2008/01/09 05:03:00, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(45)
>   ===============================================================
>[2008/01/09 05:03:00, 0] lib/util.c:smb_panic(1632)
>   PANIC (pid 5137): internal error
>[2008/01/09 05:03:00, 0] lib/util.c:log_stack_trace(1786)
>   unable to produce a stack trace on this platform
>[2008/01/09 05:03:00, 0] lib/fault.c:dump_core(181)
>   dumping core in /var/log/cores/smbd
>[2008/01/09 05:03:00, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(1033)
>   lfriend-note1 (66.152.127.240) connect to service www-marketing 
> initially as user lfriend (uid=2276, gid=80) (pid 4515)
>[2008/01/09 05:03:00, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(1033)
>   lfriend-note1 (66.152.127.240) connect to service www-projects 
> initially as user lfriend (uid=2276, gid=80) (pid 4515)
>[2008/01/09 05:03:00, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(1033)
>   lfriend-note1 (66.152.127.240) connect to service www-sales 
> initially as user lfriend (uid=2276, gid=80) (pid 4515)
>[2008/01/09 05:03:00, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(1033)
>   lfriend-note1 (66.152.127.240) connect to service www-share 
> initially as user lfriend (uid=2276, gid=80) (pid 4515)
>[2008/01/09 05:03:00, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(1033)
>   lfriend-note1 (66.152.127.240) connect to service www-symsrv 
> initially as user lfriend (uid=2276, gid=80) (pid 4515)
>[2008/01/09 05:03:00, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(1033)
>   lfriend-note1 (66.152.127.240) connect to service www-sysadmin 
> initially as user lfriend (uid=2276, gid=80) (pid 4515)
>[2008/01/09 05:03:00, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(1033)
>   lfriend-note1 (66.152.127.240) connect to service www-tools 
> initially as user lfriend (uid=2276, gid=80) (pid 4515)
>[2008/01/09 05:03:10, 1] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(1230)
>   lfriend-note1 (66.152.127.240) closed connection to service www-marketing
>[2008/01/09 05:03:10, 1] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(1230)
>   lfriend-note1 (66.152.127.240) closed connection to service www-projects
>[2008/01/09 05:03:10, 1] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(1230)
>   lfriend-note1 (66.152.127.240) closed connection to service www-sales
>[2008/01/09 05:03:10, 1] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(1230)
>   lfriend-note1 (66.152.127.240) closed connection to service www-share
>[2008/01/09 05:03:10, 1] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(1230)
>   lfriend-note1 (66.152.127.240) closed connection to service www-symsrv
>[2008/01/09 05:03:10, 1] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(1230)
>   lfriend-note1 (66.152.127.240) closed connection to service www-sysadmin
>[2008/01/09 05:03:10, 1] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(1230)
>   lfriend-note1 (66.152.127.240) closed connection to service www-tools
>
>Has anybody else seen this?  The link included in the error message 
>tells me I ought to trace through it with GDB and see what gives, 
>but before doing that, I want to be sure I'm not reinventing the wheel...
>
>An additional possible detail, all of the directories that are 
>served out by Samba are remote, and mounted as needed via nfs by amd.
>
>         Thanks much,
>                 -lars