Samba dies suddenly

[Zigster]

Hi,

yep seems to be clear.

My suspicion was a faulty memory, but since I have both wl500gp V1 and wl500gp V2 I was very in doubt, that both were damaged ... so I was looking further, to no prevail yet.

Your hint with the swap is quite a trace...!

Do you think deleting the swap partition and creating a new one would help? Or is there another way to clean that partition ?

Thanx in advance

Zigster

[Zigster]

hmm,

tried:

swapoff
mkswap -v1 <dev>

reboot

... to no prevail.

Will try to completely clean that partition and setup a new swap partition.

I'll keep you posted...and awaiting some enlightment :-)

Zigster

[Zigster]

Hi again,

here's what I did (no success though):

- deleted the swap partition with fdisk.
- created a new partition.
- made a linux swap partition type
- called mkswap on that device
- rebooted the wl500gp
- after complete bootup, called samba init.d script

Result: same crash right after smbd/nmbd were trying to run

I'm somewhat running out of ideas ...

Any hint is much appreciated.

Zigster


PS: Here's what the interactive mode of smbd is outputting:
smbd -i
smbd version 3.2.8 started.
Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2009
Unable to open printcap file /etc/printcap for read!
Unable to open printcap file /etc/printcap for read!
Segmentation fault

[wpte]

Hi again,

here's what I did (no success though):

- deleted the swap partition with fdisk.
- created a new partition.
- made a linux swap partition type
- called mkswap on that device
- rebooted the wl500gp
- after complete bootup, called samba init.d script

Result: same crash right after smbd/nmbd were trying to run

I'm somewhat running out of ideas ...

Any hint is much appreciated.

Zigster


PS: Here's what the interactive mode of smbd is outputting:
smbd -i
smbd version 3.2.8 started.
Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2009
Unable to open printcap file /etc/printcap for read!
Unable to open printcap file /etc/printcap for read!
Segmentation fault

hmm.. version 3, I never had that version working.
This error might also reffer to a broken binary, you might need to redownload the IPKG package with:

ipkg update
ipkg upgrade
ipkg install [your package] -force-reinstall -force-overwrite

otherwise you might need to try samba 2

[Zigster]

Well, Samba 3 seemed to work ok for a while... I switched back to Oleg's Samba ... works OK :-)

Thx wpte ;-)

Zigster