[Bug 678420] Re: smbd sometimes does not start on startup

[gmoore777]

Happens intermittently on our Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS 64-bit systems.
I just checked 2 machines where smbd was not started after a reboot.
I notice the same "smbd respawning too fast, stopped" in /var/log/syslog.
This message is appearing up to12 seconds prior to Network Manager acquiring
an IP address, etc.
So to me it looks like samba is failing cause the network is not established yet.
Should smbd go to sleep and try again in  a few minutes?

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Title:
  smbd sometimes does not start on startup

Status in “samba” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: samba

  After reboot, the smbd daemon sometimes does not start automatically
  on my server. It seems that it is trying to start when the network is
  not up yet. Here is the syslog excerpt:

  Nov 18 05:33:34 discobolos init: smbd main process (494) terminated with status 1
  Nov 18 05:33:34 discobolos init: smbd main process ended, respawning
  Nov 18 05:33:34 discobolos init: smbd main process (497) terminated with status 1
  Nov 18 05:33:34 discobolos init: smbd main process ended, respawning
  Nov 18 05:33:34 discobolos kernel: [   17.519178] udev: starting version 151
  Nov 18 05:33:34 discobolos init: smbd main process (500) terminated with status 1
  Nov 18 05:33:34 discobolos init: smbd main process ended, respawning
  Nov 18 05:33:34 discobolos init: smbd main process (526) terminated with status 1
  Nov 18 05:33:34 discobolos init: smbd respawning too fast, stopped

  And here is the corresponding smbd.log part:

  [2010/11/18 05:33:34,  0] smbd/server.c:1069(main)
    smbd version 3.4.7 started.
    Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2009
  [2010/11/18 05:33:34,  0] lib/interface.c:527(load_interfaces)
    ERROR: Could not determine network interfaces, you must use a interfaces config line
  [2010/11/18 05:33:34,  0] smbd/server.c:1069(main)
    smbd version 3.4.7 started.
    Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2009
  [2010/11/18 05:33:34,  0] lib/interface.c:527(load_interfaces)
    ERROR: Could not determine network interfaces, you must use a interfaces config line
  ....

  When I start it manually afterwards all goes fine. This doesn happen after every restart though. It seems that sometimes the network does make it to start before samba daemon.
  Any ideas please? Does anyone have the same problem?

  My distro is Ubuntu server 10.04.1 LTS 64 bit.

  Thanx
  Roman Smid

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