[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#645984: samba: Often fails to start at boot

[Olaf van der Spek]

Package: samba
Version: 2:3.5.6~dfsg-3squeeze5
Severity: normal

Hi,

In my VMs, Samba sometimes fails to start at boot. The nmbd process isn't running in that case.
A restart brings it back to live.

I see this line in nmbd.log:
[2011/10/20 10:25:19.149863,  0] nmbd/nmbd.c:696(open_sockets)

# service samba restart
Stopping Samba daemons: nmbdstart-stop-daemon: warning: failed to kill 913: No such process
 smbd.
Starting Samba daemons: nmbd smbd.

Greetings,

Olaf

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (1, 'unstable'), (1, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages samba depends on:
ii  adduser           3.112+nmu2             add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf- 1.5.38                 Debian configuration management sy
ii  libacl1           2.2.49-4               Access control list shared library
ii  libattr1          1:2.4.44-2             Extended attribute shared library
ii  libc6             2.11.2-11              Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcap2           1:2.19-3               support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii  libcomerr2        1.41.12-4stable1       common error description library
ii  libcups2          1.4.5-2                Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2  1.8.3+dfsg-4squeeze2   MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k
ii  libk5crypto3      1.8.3+dfsg-4squeeze2   MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - C
ii  libkrb5-3         1.8.3+dfsg-4squeeze2   MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libldap-2.4-2     2.4.23-7.2             OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpam-modules    1.1.1-6.1              Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime    1.1.1-6.1              Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g          1.1.1-6.1              Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpopt0          1.16-1                 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libtalloc2        2.0.5-1                hierarchical pool based memory all
ii  libwbclient0      2:3.5.6~dfsg-3squeeze5 Samba winbind client library
ii  lsb-base          3.2-27                 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  procps            1:3.2.8-10             /proc file system utilities
ii  samba-common      2:3.5.6~dfsg-3squeeze5 common files used by both the Samb
ii  update-inetd      4.38+nmu1+squeeze1     inetd configuration file updater
ii  zlib1g            1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3       compression library - runtime

Versions of packages samba recommends:
ii  logrotate                     3.7.8-6    Log rotation utility

Versions of packages samba suggests:
pn  ctdb                          <none>     (no description available)
pn  ldb-tools                     <none>     (no description available)
pn  openbsd-inetd | inet-superser <none>     (no description available)
pn  smbldap-tools                 <none>     (no description available)

-- debconf information:
  samba/run_mode: daemons
  samba/generate_smbpasswd: true