[Bug 596064] Re: nmbd fails to start on boot - problem with upstart

[Vasya Pupkin]

Some more testing revealed that if I comment out user's cron @reboot job
that starts two virtualbox machines, nmbd starts. So I guess upstart
fails to continue starting daemons if there is a high system load at
boot time.

This makes me very sad. User job can affect server's start up... I have
these virtual machines since 2009 but only few days ago it started to
happen, so I blame latest kernel update.

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Title:
  nmbd fails to start on boot - problem with upstart

Status in “samba” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “samba” source package in Lucid:
  Confirmed
Status in “samba” source package in Maverick:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: samba

  1. Release of Ubuntu is 10.04 LTS
  2. Version of Samba is - 3.4.7

  Problem - Expected nmbd service to start at boot but it  failed to
  start at boot. We have multiple systems but this problem has been
  noticed only on certain systems. The same packages were installed on
  all systems. As a workaround, we changed the pre start script
  configuration file for nmbd - /etc/init/nmbd.conf to make it start at
  boot always. The following 2 lines were commented in the nmbd.conf
  file -

          NMBD_DISABLED=`testparm -s --parameter-name='disable netbios' 2>/dev/null`
         [ "x$NMBD_DISABLED" = xYes ] && { stop; exit 0; }

  I don't think that I understand what the second line is trying to do.
  Please check and advise how to fix this problem.

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