[Bug 823878] Re: "bind interfaces only" requires a manual change to /etc/init/smbd.conf

[camden lindsay]

To be clear and recap--

smb.conf has the following
interfaces = eth0

Static IP was assigned via network manager.

smbd would not start up-- as per
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/836849
(open_socket_smbd fail)

As per this bug (the one i am currently updating), i edited the startup in /etc/init/smbd.conf to be the following
start on (local-filesystems and net-device-up IFACE=eth0)

smbd started without a problem, but nmbd no longer started at boot.

Following the debug tips in the bug 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+source/samba/+bug/596064
I identified that nmbd was not starting because /var/run/samba did not exist.  I added 'mkdir -p /var/run/samba' to the pre-start script of /etc/init/nmbd.conf  as suggested by bug 596064, and now everything starts up as expected.

hope this explains it..

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Title:
  "bind interfaces only" requires a manual change to /etc/init/smbd.conf

Status in “samba” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Sometimes smbd daemon failes to start after system restart. As a
  result, fileserver is not accessible after power failure and requires
  someone to fix that manually, which sometimes is very hard to do.
  Today this happened again and here's what was in logs:

  ===
  Aug 10 14:40:32 shadow-server smbd[713]: [2011/08/10 14:40:32,  0] lib/interface.c:550(load_interfaces)
  Aug 10 14:40:32 shadow-server smbd[713]:   WARNING: no network interfaces found
  Aug 10 14:40:32 shadow-server smbd[713]: [2011/08/10 14:40:32,  0] smbd/server.c:1115(main)
  Aug 10 14:40:32 shadow-server smbd[713]:   standard input is not a socket, assuming -D option
  Aug 10 14:40:32 shadow-server smbd[713]: [2011/08/10 14:40:32,  0] smbd/server.c:616(open_sockets_smbd)
  Aug 10 14:40:32 shadow-server smbd[713]:   open_sockets_smbd: No sockets available to bind to.
  Aug 10 14:40:32 shadow-server smbd[713]: [2011/08/10 14:40:32,  0] smbd/server.c:837(exit_server_common)
  Aug 10 14:40:32 shadow-server smbd[713]:   ===============================================================
  Aug 10 14:40:32 shadow-server smbd[713]: [2011/08/10 14:40:32,  0] smbd/server.c:839(exit_server_common)
  Aug 10 14:40:32 shadow-server smbd[713]:   Abnormal server exit: open_sockets_smbd() failed
  Aug 10 14:40:32 shadow-server smbd[713]: [2011/08/10 14:40:32,  0] smbd/server.c:840(exit_server_common)
  Aug 10 14:40:32 shadow-server smbd[713]:   ===============================================================
  Aug 10 14:40:32 shadow-server smbd[713]: [2011/08/10 14:40:32,  0] lib/util.c:1584(log_stack_trace)
  Aug 10 14:40:32 shadow-server smbd[713]:   BACKTRACE: 6 stack frames:
  Aug 10 14:40:32 shadow-server smbd[713]:    #0 smbd(log_stack_trace+0x1a) [0x7f898f57295a]
  Aug 10 14:40:32 shadow-server smbd[713]:    #1 smbd(+0x5a9f90) [0x7f898f801f90]
  Aug 10 14:40:32 shadow-server smbd[713]:    #2 smbd(+0x5aa161) [0x7f898f802161]
  Aug 10 14:40:32 shadow-server smbd[713]:    #3 smbd(main+0x90d) [0x7f898f802ebd]
  Aug 10 14:40:32 shadow-server smbd[713]:    #4 /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x7f898bcffc4d]
  Aug 10 14:40:32 shadow-server smbd[713]:    #5 smbd(+0xc0a49) [0x7f898f318a49]
  Aug 10 14:40:32 shadow-server smbd[713]: [2011/08/10 14:40:32,  0] lib/fault.c:326(dump_core)
  Aug 10 14:40:32 shadow-server smbd[713]:   dumping core in /var/log/samba/cores/smbd
  Aug 10 14:40:32 shadow-server smbd[713]:
  Aug 10 14:40:33 shadow-server init: smbd main process (713) killed by ABRT signal
  Aug 10 14:40:33 shadow-server init: smbd main process ended, respawning

  *** repeated the same several times ***

  Aug 10 14:40:33 shadow-server init: smbd main process (902) killed by ABRT signal
  Aug 10 14:40:33 shadow-server init: smbd respawning too fast, stopped
  ===

  It's a server, network is configured via DHCP, there is no Network
  Manager installed, and according to log, it was configured just a
  second after smbd failed to start:

  Aug 10 14:40:34 shadow-server dhclient: bound to 192.168.0.156 --
  renewal in 40397 seconds.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: samba 2:3.4.7~dfsg-1ubuntu3.7
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-33.72-server 2.6.32.41+drm33.18
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-33-server x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Aug 10 15:44:21 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 10.04.2 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20110211.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SambaServerRegression: No
  SourcePackage: samba

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