[Pkg-samba-maint] Weird problem launching samba on my laptop

[Steve Langasek]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 07:10:45PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> It's quite some time since I hadn't used samba on my laptop and I'm
> currently running into a strange problem.

> Each time I try launching samba, nmbd fails to lad and dies with:

> [2009/07/15 19:06:33,  2] nmbd/nmbd.c:887(main)
>   Becoming a daemon.
> [2009/07/15 19:06:33,  3] nmbd/nmbd.c:948(main)
>   Opening sockets 137
> [2009/07/15 19:06:33,  3] ../lib/util/util_net.c:56(interpret_string_addr_internal)
>   interpret_string_addr_internal: getaddrinfo failed for name 0.0.0.0 [Address family for hostname not supported]
> [2009/07/15 19:06:33,  0] nmbd/nmbd.c:693(open_sockets)

> That message is indeed localized (if I launch samba in a
> French-ocalized environment, the failure message is in French), so I
> guees this does not come from samba....and, indeed, the problem
> probably doesn't lie in samba directly.

> Any hint about the place I should look into in order to find a solution
> for this?

Haven't seen this at all.  Are you trying to launch it when there are no
network interfaces available?  Do you have ipv6 enabled on this machine (it
should be enabled by default)?  Which version of Samba?  Do you have any of
the 'interfaces' settings in your smb.conf?  (interfaces, bind interfaces
only, socket address)

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