[Bug 750786] Re: nmbd job fails to start on boot

Cypher2 nathanel.titane at gmail.com
Sun Apr 10 16:47:25 UTC 2011


On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Chuck Short
<chuck.short at canonical.com>wrote:

> Can you attach your /var/log/samba/log.nmbd as well?
>
> Thanks
> chuck
>
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> Title:
>  nmbd job fails to start on boot
>
> Status in “samba” package in Ubuntu:
>  Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
>  Binary package hint: samba
>
>  Samba fails to start on boot to enable remote file access on ubuntu
>  and windows.
>
>  I was able to fix the nmbd startup issue on natty and maverick!
>
>  It has to do with the init scrip at /etc/init/nmbd.conf
>
>  The start line needs to state start on local-filesystems ONLY!
>
>  The loopback ethernet interfaces start too late to satisfy the
>  chronological dependency for nmbd to load as process...
>
>  Thus, /etc/init/nmbd.conf content should be:
>
>
>  description "NetBIOS name server"
>  author      "Steve Langasek <steve.langasek at ubuntu.com>"
>
>  start on (local-filesystems)
>  stop on runlevel [!2345]
>
>  expect fork
>  respawn
>
>  pre-start script
>        mkdir -p /var/run/samba
>
>          [ -f /etc/samba/smb.conf ] || { stop; exit 0; }
>
>        install -o root -g root -m 755 -d /var/run/samba
>        NMBD_DISABLED=`testparm -s --parameter-name='disable netbios'
> 2>/dev/null`
>
>          [ "x$NMBD_DISABLED" = xYes ] && { stop; exit 0; }
>
>        exit 0
>  end script
>
>  exec nmbd -D
>
>  ProblemType: Bug
>  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
>  Package: samba 2:3.5.8~dfsg-1ubuntu1
>  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.39-generic 2.6.38
>  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-7-generic x86_64
>  Architecture: amd64
>  Date: Mon Apr  4 17:46:02 2011
>  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64 (20110302)
>  ProcEnviron:
>   LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
>   LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
>   SHELL=/bin/bash
>  RelatedPackageVersions:
>   nautilus 1:2.32.2.1-0ubuntu11.1
>   gvfs     1.7.3-0ubuntu2
>  SambaClientRegression: Yes
>  SourcePackage: samba
>  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>
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