Likewise-CIFS File Server (lwsm start srvsvc) won't start

[David Colborne]

Binary package hint: likewise-open

Binary package hint: likewise-open

All testing undertaken an HP Proliant DL385G5p

Lucid Beta
Linux (servername) 2.6.32-16-generic #25-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 9 16:33:12 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux

likewise-open:
  Installed: 5.4.0.42111-1
  Candidate: 5.4.0.42111-1
  Version table:
 *** 5.4.0.42111-1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I'm following along with Likewise Open's documentation here: http://www.likewise.com/resources/documentation_library/manuals/cifs/likewise-cifs-smb-file-server-guide.html

My goal was to test out the Likewise-CIFS implementation in Likewise Open 5.4. My server is successfully joined to the domain and I was able to log in as a domain user on the server. DNS and domainjoin-cli query provide expected results. However, when I attempt to start the srvsvc service (see 1.5.3 of the above documentation), I receive the following error:

Starting service dependency: pvfs
Error: ERROR_GEN_FAILURE (31)
Unknown error

'lwsm list' shows the following:

lwreg running (standalone: 890)
dcerpc running (standalone: 1030)
eventlog running (standalone: 1151)
lsass running (standalone: 1299)
lwio running (standalone: 1218)
netlogon running (standalone: 1090)
npfs running (io: 1218)
pvfs stopped
rdr running (io: 1218)
srv stopped
srvsvc stopped

It looks like pvfs either isn't installed or isn't configured properly; nothing shows up when I search for it using find and there's no package for it. Based on this moderately cryptic PDF (http://likewiseopen.org/UDS-L_likewise-open.pdf), it appears that pvfs is used for POSIX file system compatibility; with that in mind, just to be on the safe side, I enabled user_xattr on my main partition and installed the acl package to turn on POSIX ACLs. That didn't do anything useful, unfortunately.

My suspicion is that the Likewise pvfs service wasn't compiled into the likewise-open package. Thoughts? Questions?

[David Colborne (oatworm)]

Did a little more digging around - my initial thought is correct. In /etc/likewise-open is a set of registry files that detail the dependencies for each Likewise service. Since I was trying to start srvsvc, I started there:

[HKEY_THIS_MACHINE\Services]

[HKEY_THIS_MACHINE\Services\srvsvc]
"Description"="Likewise Server Service"
"Path"="/usr/sbin/srvsvcd"
"Arguments"="/usr/sbin/srvsvcd --syslog"
"Dependencies"="dcerpc lwio srv npfs"
"Type"=dword:00000001

Armed with this, I hunted through the dependencies for each. The key is in srv's dependencies, which are listed in lwio's registry file, /etc/likewise-open/lwiod.reg:

[HKEY_THIS_MACHINE\Services\srv]
"Description"="Likewise CIFS Server"
"Path"="/usr/lib/likewise-open/libsrv.sys.so"
"Arguments"="srv"
"Dependencies"="lwio pvfs npfs lsass"
"Type"=dword:00000003

Pvfs' configuration is also listed here:

[HKEY_THIS_MACHINE\Services\pvfs]
"Description"="Likewise POSIX VFS Filesystem"
"Path"="/usr/lib/likewise-open/libpvfs.sys.so"
"Arguments"="pvfs"
"Dependencies"="lwio"
"Type"=dword:00000003

When I ls to /usr/lib/likewise-open, I found that libpvfs.sys.so wasn't present, which confirmed my suspicion that, for whatever reason, Likewise's pvfs support was not included in the package during compile time.

I'm going to try downloading the package source and see if there's anything that would explain things there.

[Gerald Carter (coffeedude.jerry)]

did you install the likewise-openserver package?

[David Colborne (oatworm)]

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package likewise-openserver

Not in any of the default sources. Enabled the partner repositories, received the same result.

[David Colborne (oatworm)]

Looking at the source's README, I'm suspecting it was compiled without libattr1-dev. I'm going to try and see if that makes any difference.

[Gerald Carter (coffeedude.jerry)]

Sorry. The package name is "likewise-open-server"

[David Colborne (oatworm)]

Yep - that was it. Thanks! Odd that I didn't see that package in Aptitude when I searched for "likewise", but I'll take it.

[Gerald Carter (coffeedude.jerry)]

I've got an open issue on the server that I need to debug, so if you have issues, please let me know.
Should we close thsi bug out now? or is something still pending?

[David Colborne (oatworm)]

This particular bug is done, I think. That said, lwnet is missing, which means that I can't use the CLI to create new shares using L-CIFS. Should I add a new bug for that?

[Gerald Carter (coffeedude.jerry)]

lw-share is the stand in replacement for now. We are rewriting a new "net share add" etc... CLI
at the moment, but will not have that done in time for Lucid. Let's go ahead and close this bug out.
You can mail me direct or on the <email address hidden> ml if you have usage questions or about configuration.

[David Colborne (oatworm)]

Okay, that works. Thanks again!