[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#400617: samba: FAM support doesn't seem to work with gamin

[Eric Lavarde]

Package: samba
Version: 3.0.23d-1
Severity: grave


Hi,

I just upgrade samba and started to get massive timeout issues trying to
access my shares.
Troubleshooting showed error messages in /var/log/samba/log.HOSTNAME
coming up in 2s intervals:

[...]
Failed to connect to socket /tmp/fam-root-
[2006/11/27 17:15:43, 0] smbd/notify_fam.c:fam_check_reconnect(136)
failed to connect to FAM service
Failed to connect to socket /tmp/fam-root-
[2006/11/27 17:15:45, 0] smbd/notify_fam.c:fam_check_reconnect(136)
failed to connect to FAM service
[...]

Adding "fam change notify = yes" to the global section of smb.conf
solved the issue. As I don't have FAM but GAMIN (as required by KDE)
installed, I suspect here some kind of incompatibility, which shouldn't
make it to etch (hence the severity).

My suggestion would be to have FAM notification off by default, and
solve the underlying issue after etch release, should time be short.

Thanks, Eric

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-18nc6k1
Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages samba depends on:
ii  debconf  1.5.8                           Debian configuration management sy
ii  libacl1  2.2.41-1                        Access control list shared library
ii  libattr1 2.4.32-1                        Extended attribute shared library
ii  libc6    2.3.6.ds1-8                     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcomer 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-1 common error description library
ii  libcupsy 1.2.5-1                         Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libgamin 0.1.7-4                         Client library for the gamin file 
ii  libgnutl 1.4.4-2                         the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libkrb53 1.4.4-4                         MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libldap2 2.1.30-13+b1                    OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpam-m 0.79-4                          Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-r 0.79-4                          Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g 0.79-4                          Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpopt0 1.10-3                          lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  logrotat 3.7.1-3                         Log rotation utility
ii  lsb-base 3.1-15                          Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  netbase  4.27                            Basic TCP/IP networking system
ii  procps   1:3.2.7-3                       /proc file system utilities
ii  samba-co 3.0.23d-1                       Samba common files used by both th
ii  zlib1g   1:1.2.3-13                      compression library - runtime

Versions of packages samba recommends:
pn  smbldap-tools                 <none>     (no description available)

-- debconf information:
  samba/nmbd_from_inetd:
  samba/log_files_moved:
  samba/tdbsam: false
* samba/generate_smbpasswd: true
* samba/run_mode: daemons