Bug #596064 “nmbd fails to start on boot - problem with upstart ...” : Bugs : samba package : Ubuntu

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Abhishek Mukherjee (abhishek-s-mukherjee) wrote on 2010-06-18:

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No manual changes were made to samba configuration file. Here it goes.

#
# Sample configuration file for the Samba suite for Debian GNU/Linux.
#
#
# This is the main Samba configuration file. You should read the
# smb.conf(5) manual page in order to understand the options listed
# here. Samba has a huge number of configurable options most of which
# are not shown in this example
#
# Some options that are often worth tuning have been included as
# commented-out examples in this file.
# - When such options are commented with ";", the proposed setting
# differs from the default Samba behaviour
# - When commented with "#", the proposed setting is the default
# behaviour of Samba but the option is considered important
# enough to be mentioned here
#
# NOTE: Whenever you modify this file you should run the command
# "testparm" to check that you have not made any basic syntactic
# errors.
# A well-established practice is to name the original file
# "smb.conf.master" and create the "real" config file with
# testparm -s smb.conf.master >smb.conf
# This minimizes the size of the really used smb.conf file
# which, according to the Samba Team, impacts performance
# However, use this with caution if your smb.conf file contains nested
# "include" statements. See Debian bug #483187 for a case
# where using a master file is not a good idea.
#

#======================= Global Settings =======================

[global]

## Browsing/Identification ###

# Change this to the workgroup/NT-domain name your Samba server will part of
workgroup = WORKGROUP

# server string is the equivalent of the NT Description field
server string = %h server (Samba, Ubuntu)

# Windows Internet Name Serving Support Section:
# WINS Support - Tells the NMBD component of Samba to enable its WINS Server
# wins support = no

# WINS Server - Tells the NMBD components of Samba to be a WINS Client
# Note: Samba can be either a WINS Server, or a WINS Client, but NOT both
; wins server = w.x.y.z

# This will prevent nmbd to search for NetBIOS names through DNS.
dns proxy = no

# What naming service and in what order should we use to resolve host names
# to IP addresses
; name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast

#### Networking ####

# The specific set of interfaces / networks to bind to
# This can be either the interface name or an IP address/netmask;
# interface names are normally preferred
; interfaces = 127.0.0.0/8 eth0

# Only bind to the named interfaces and/or networks; you must use the
# 'interfaces' option above to use this.
# It is recommended that you enable this feature if your Samba machine is
# not protected by a firewall or is a firewall itself. However, this
# option cannot handle dynamic or non-broadcast interfaces correctly.
; bind interfaces only = yes

#### Debugging/Accounting ####

# This tells Samba to use a separate log file for each machine
# that connects
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m

# Cap the size of the individual log files (in KiB).
max log size = 1000

# If you want Samba to only log through syslog then set the following
# parameter to 'yes'.
# syslog only = no

# We want Samba to log a minimum amount of informat...

No manual changes were made to samba configuration file. Here it goes.

#
# Sample configuration file for the Samba suite for Debian GNU/Linux.
#
#
# This is the main Samba configuration file. You should read the
# smb.conf(5) manual page in order to understand the options listed
# here. Samba has a huge number of configurable options most of which
# are not shown in this example
#
# Some options that are often worth tuning have been included as
# commented-out examples in this file.
#  - When such options are commented with ";", the proposed setting
#    differs from the default Samba behaviour
#  - When commented with "#", the proposed setting is the default
#    behaviour of Samba but the option is considered important
#    enough to be mentioned here
#
# NOTE: Whenever you modify this file you should run the command
# "testparm" to check that you have not made any basic syntactic
# errors.
# A well-established practice is to name the original file
# "smb.conf.master" and create the "real" config file with
# testparm -s smb.conf.master >smb.conf
# This minimizes the size of the really used smb.conf file
# which, according to the Samba Team, impacts performance
# However, use this with caution if your smb.conf file contains nested
# "include" statements. See Debian bug #483187 for a case
# where using a master file is not a good idea.
#

#======================= Global Settings =======================

[global]

## Browsing/Identification ###

# Change this to the workgroup/NT-domain name your Samba server will part of
   workgroup = WORKGROUP

# server string is the equivalent of the NT Description field
   server string = %h server (Samba, Ubuntu)

# Windows Internet Name Serving Support Section:
# WINS Support - Tells the NMBD component of Samba to enable its WINS Server
#   wins support = no

# WINS Server - Tells the NMBD components of Samba to be a WINS Client
# Note: Samba can be either a WINS Server, or a WINS Client, but NOT both
;   wins server = w.x.y.z

# This will prevent nmbd to search for NetBIOS names through DNS.
   dns proxy = no

# What naming service and in what order should we use to resolve host names
# to IP addresses
;   name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast

#### Networking ####

# The specific set of interfaces / networks to bind to
# This can be either the interface name or an IP address/netmask;
# interface names are normally preferred
;   interfaces = 127.0.0.0/8 eth0

# Only bind to the named interfaces and/or networks; you must use the
# 'interfaces' option above to use this.
# It is recommended that you enable this feature if your Samba machine is
# not protected by a firewall or is a firewall itself.  However, this
# option cannot handle dynamic or non-broadcast interfaces correctly.
;   bind interfaces only = yes

#### Debugging/Accounting ####

# This tells Samba to use a separate log file for each machine
# that connects
   log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m

# Cap the size of the individual log files (in KiB).
   max log size = 1000

# If you want Samba to only log through syslog then set the following
# parameter to 'yes'.
#   syslog only = no

# We want Samba to log a minimum amount of information to syslog. Everything
# should go to /var/log/samba/log.{smbd,nmbd} instead. If you want to log
# through syslog you should set the following parameter to something higher.
   syslog = 0

# Do something sensible when Samba crashes: mail the admin a backtrace
   panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d

####### Authentication #######

# "security = user" is always a good idea. This will require a Unix account
# in this server for every user accessing the server. See
# /usr/share/doc/samba-doc/htmldocs/Samba3-HOWTO/ServerType.html
# in the samba-doc package for details.
#   security = user

# You may wish to use password encryption.  See the section on
# 'encrypt passwords' in the smb.conf(5) manpage before enabling.
   encrypt passwords = true

# If you are using encrypted passwords, Samba will need to know what
# password database type you are using. 
   passdb backend = tdbsam

obey pam restrictions = yes

# This boolean parameter controls whether Samba attempts to sync the Unix
# password with the SMB password when the encrypted SMB password in the
# passdb is changed.
   unix password sync = yes

# For Unix password sync to work on a Debian GNU/Linux system, the following
# parameters must be set (thanks to Ian Kahan <<kahan@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> for
# sending the correct chat script for the passwd program in Debian Sarge).
   passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
   passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* .

# This boolean controls whether PAM will be used for password changes
# when requested by an SMB client instead of the program listed in
# 'passwd program'. The default is 'no'.
   pam password change = yes

# This option controls how unsuccessful authentication attempts are mapped
# to anonymous connections
   map to guest = bad user

########## Domains ###########

# Is this machine able to authenticate users. Both PDC and BDC
# must have this setting enabled. If you are the BDC you must
# change the 'domain master' setting to no
#
;   domain logons = yes
#
# The following setting only takes effect if 'domain logons' is set
# It specifies the location of the user's profile directory
# from the client point of view)
# The following required a [profiles] share to be setup on the
# samba server (see below)
;   logon path = \\%N\profiles\%U
# Another common choice is storing the profile in the user's home directory
# (this is Samba's default)
#   logon path = \\%N\%U\profile

# The following setting only takes effect if 'domain logons' is set
# It specifies the location of a user's home directory (from the client
# point of view)
;   logon drive = H:
#   logon home = \\%N\%U

# The following setting only takes effect if 'domain logons' is set
# It specifies the script to run during logon. The script must be stored
# in the [netlogon] share
# NOTE: Must be store in 'DOS' file format convention
;   logon script = logon.cmd

# This allows Unix users to be created on the domain controller via the SAMR
# RPC pipe.  The example command creates a user account with a disabled Unix
# password; please adapt to your needs
; add user script = /usr/sbin/adduser --quiet --disabled-password --gecos "" %u

# This allows machine accounts to be created on the domain controller via the
# SAMR RPC pipe. 
# The following assumes a "machines" group exists on the system
; add machine script  = /usr/sbin/useradd -g machines -c "%u machine account" -d /var/lib/samba -s /bin/false %u

# This allows Unix groups to be created on the domain controller via the SAMR
# RPC pipe. 
; add group script = /usr/sbin/addgroup --force-badname %g

########## Printing ##########

# If you want to automatically load your printer list rather
# than setting them up individually then you'll need this
#   load printers = yes

# lpr(ng) printing. You may wish to override the location of the
# printcap file
;   printing = bsd
;   printcap name = /etc/printcap

# CUPS printing.  See also the cupsaddsmb(8) manpage in the
# cupsys-client package.
;   printing = cups
;   printcap name = cups

############ Misc ############

# Using the following line enables you to customise your configuration
# on a per machine basis. The %m gets replaced with the netbios name
# of the machine that is connecting
;   include = /home/samba/etc/smb.conf.%m

# Most people will find that this option gives better performance.
# See smb.conf(5) and /usr/share/doc/samba-doc/htmldocs/Samba3-HOWTO/speed.html
# for details
# You may want to add the following on a Linux system:
#         SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
#   socket options = TCP_NODELAY

# The following parameter is useful only if you have the linpopup package
# installed. The samba maintainer and the linpopup maintainer are
# working to ease installation and configuration of linpopup and samba.
;   message command = /bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/linpopup "%f" "%m" %s; rm %s' &

# Domain Master specifies Samba to be the Domain Master Browser. If this
# machine will be configured as a BDC (a secondary logon server), you
# must set this to 'no'; otherwise, the default behavior is recommended.
#   domain master = auto

# Some defaults for winbind (make sure you're not using the ranges
# for something else.)
;   idmap uid = 10000-20000
;   idmap gid = 10000-20000
;   template shell = /bin/bash

# The following was the default behaviour in sarge,
# but samba upstream reverted the default because it might induce
# performance issues in large organizations.
# See Debian bug #368251 for some of the consequences of *not*
# having this setting and smb.conf(5) for details.
;   winbind enum groups = yes
;   winbind enum users = yes

# Setup usershare options to enable non-root users to share folders
# with the net usershare command.

# Maximum number of usershare. 0 (default) means that usershare is disabled.
;   usershare max shares = 100

# Allow users who've been granted usershare privileges to create
# public shares, not just authenticated ones
   usershare allow guests = yes

#======================= Share Definitions =======================

# Un-comment the following (and tweak the other settings below to suit)
# to enable the default home directory shares.  This will share each
# user's home directory as \\server\username
;[homes]
;   comment = Home Directories
;   browseable = no

# By default, the home directories are exported read-only. Change the
# next parameter to 'no' if you want to be able to write to them.
;   read only = yes

# File creation mask is set to 0700 for security reasons. If you want to
# create files with group=rw permissions, set next parameter to 0775.
;   create mask = 0700

# Directory creation mask is set to 0700 for security reasons. If you want to
# create dirs. with group=rw permissions, set next parameter to 0775.
;   directory mask = 0700

# By default, \\server\username shares can be connected to by anyone
# with access to the samba server.  Un-comment the following parameter
# to make sure that only "username" can connect to \\server\username
# This might need tweaking when using external authentication schemes
;   valid users = %S

# Un-comment the following and create the netlogon directory for Domain Logons
# (you need to configure Samba to act as a domain controller too.)
;[netlogon]
;   comment = Network Logon Service
;   path = /home/samba/netlogon
;   guest ok = yes
;   read only = yes
;   share modes = no

# Un-comment the following and create the profiles directory to store
# users profiles (see the "logon path" option above)
# (you need to configure Samba to act as a domain controller too.)
# The path below should be writable by all users so that their
# profile directory may be created the first time they log on
;[profiles]
;   comment = Users profiles
;   path = /home/samba/profiles
;   guest ok = no
;   browseable = no
;   create mask = 0600
;   directory mask = 0700

[printers]
   comment = All Printers
   browseable = no
   path = /var/spool/samba
   printable = yes
   guest ok = no
   read only = yes
   create mask = 0700

# Windows clients look for this share name as a source of downloadable
# printer drivers
[print$]
   comment = Printer Drivers
   path = /var/lib/samba/printers
   browseable = yes
   read only = yes
   guest ok = no
# Uncomment to allow remote administration of Windows print drivers.
# You may need to replace 'lpadmin' with the name of the group your
# admin users are members of.
# Please note that you also need to set appropriate Unix permissions
# to the drivers directory for these users to have write rights in it
;   write list = root, @lpadmin

# A sample share for sharing your CD-ROM with others.
;[cdrom]
;   comment = Samba server's CD-ROM
;   read only = yes
;   locking = no
;   path = /cdrom
;   guest ok = yes

# The next two parameters show how to auto-mount a CD-ROM when the
#    cdrom share is accesed. For this to work /etc/fstab must contain
#    an entry like this:
#
#       /dev/scd0   /cdrom  iso9660 defaults,noauto,ro,user   0 0
#
# The CD-ROM gets unmounted automatically after the connection to the
#
# If you don't want to use auto-mounting/unmounting make sure the CD
#    is mounted on /cdrom
#
;   preexec = /bin/mount /cdrom
;   postexec = /bin/umount /cdrom

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Thierry Carrez (ttx) wrote on 2010-06-23:

#2

Those two lines are about checking if NetBIOS is disabled in smb.conf, and if yes, not start nmbd.
If it works reliably for you once you comment those lines, something must fail on this testparm check.

Could you try running the following (on one of the machines that fail if the check is enabled):
$ testparm -s --parameter-name='disable netbios' 2>/dev/null
$ echo $?

Also, on the machine that fail to start nmbd at boot, does starting up nmbd manually after boot (sudo start nmbd) work with an uncommented prestart script ?

Changed in samba (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium
status:	New → Incomplete

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aroonsurya (aroonsurya) wrote on 2010-06-24:

#3

I and Abhishek are working in the same lab setup.
Here are the answers to U'r Q

$ testparm -s --parameter-name='disable netbios' 2>/dev/null
$ echo $?

rka-29@rka-29-desktop:~$ testparm -s --parameter-name='disable netbios' 2>/dev/null
No
rka-29@rka-29-desktop:~$ echo $?
0

Also, on the machine that fail to start nmbd at boot, does starting up nmbd manually after boot (sudo start nmbd) work with an uncommented prestart script ?

Yes.

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Thierry Carrez (ttx) wrote on 2010-06-25:

#4

OK, so the issue seems to be that << testparm -s --parameter-name='disable netbios' >> sometimes fails (or returns 'Yes') when started at boot-time. The "start on (local-filesystems and net-device-up IFACE!=lo)" should however be late enough...

To confirm, could you try with:

pre-start script
  date > /tmp/nmbd-upstart.log
  NMBD_DISABLED=`testparm -s --parameter-name='disable netbios' 2>>/tmp/nmbd-upstart.log`
  echo "Output is $NMBD_DISABLED" >> /tmp/nmbd-upstart.log
  [ "x$NMBD_DISABLED" = xYes ] && { stop; exit 0; }
  install -o root -g root -m 755 -d /var/run/samba
end script

And post the resulting /tmp/nmbd-upstart.log when it fails ?

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Bret Towe (magnade) wrote on 2010-06-25:

#5

I played with the nmbd.conf script and changed the 2 lines that seem at fault
looks to of worked not done repeat tests

NMBD_DISABLED=`testparm -s --parameter-name="disable netbios" 2>>/tmp/nmbd-upstart.log`
[ "$NMBD_DISABLED" = Yes ] && { stop; exit 0; }

I don't think removing the x's from the second line is required but it looks better

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aroonsurya (aroonsurya) wrote on 2010-06-26:

#6

Here is the log

Sat Jun 26 17:31:19 IST 2010
Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf
rlimit_max: rlimit_max (1024) below minimum Windows limit (16384)
Processing section "[printers]"
Processing section "[print$]"
Loaded services file OK.
Output is No

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Abhishek Mukherjee (abhishek-s-mukherjee) wrote on 2010-06-27:

#7

There is something interesting that happened after we changed the script the way you had described. NMBD started at boot. After some troubleshooting, we noticed the following errors in the /tmp/nmbd-upstart.log

$ cat /tmp/nmbd-upstart.log
Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf
rlimit_max: rlimit_max (1024) below minimum Windows limit (16384)
Processing section "[printers]"
Processing section "[print$]"
Loaded services file OK.
ERROR: lock directory /var/run/samba does not exist
ERROR: pid directory /var/run/samba does not exist

This was only after we removed the date command, if I remember correctly. But the crux of the issue is that a race condition is stopping nmbd from starting. It so happens that samba and nmbd start up at the same time. The directory /var/run/samba is created by the samba service when its starting up. But samba service does that only after the command "testparm -s --parameter-name='disable netbios' 2>>/tmp/nmbd-upstart.log" has executed unsuccessfully. NMBD service stopped failing when we added date command in the script. The date command must have introduced the much needed delay which we couldn't introduce with the "sleep 20" command. However we created the directory before the execution of the "testparm" command execution and that fixed the issue. This race condition should ideally be avoided by forcing nmbd to start up only after samba service has started successfully. I don't know how to do that in an upstart script. Please guide.

At present the pre start section of the script looks like this -

pre-start script
# No need to keep it now
# date > /tmp/nmbd-upstart.log

# Introduced mkdir to fix race condition
mkdir /var/run/samba
NMBD_DISABLED=`testparm -s --parameter-name='disable netbios' 2>/tmp/nmbd-upstart.log`
[ "x$NMBD_DISABLED" = xYes ] && { stop; exit 0; }
install -o root -g root -m 755 -d /var/run/samba
end script

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Thierry Carrez (ttx) wrote on 2010-07-02:

#8

Nice investigation, thanks!
nmbd would only start when its "start" is run after smbd's upstart script "pre-start". We indeed need to fix that race.

Changed in samba (Ubuntu):
importance:	Medium → High
status:	Incomplete → Triaged

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Chuck Short (zulcss) wrote on 2010-07-02:

#9

Hi,

Can you test out samba_3.4.7~dfsg-1ubuntu4~test in https://edge.launchpad.net/~zulcss/+archive/server-bug-fixes when it gets built?

Thanks
chuck

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Abhishek Mukherjee (abhishek-s-mukherjee) wrote on 2010-07-03: Re: [Bug 596064] Re: nmbd fails to start on boot - problem with upstart

#10

Hi Chuck,

Sure, we can test it. Please let us know where from we can download the
package once it has been built.

Thanks,
Abhishek

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Chuck Short <email address hidden>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Can you test out samba_3.4.7~dfsg-1ubuntu4~test in
> https://edge.launchpad.net/~zulcss/+archive/server-bug-fixes<https://edge.launchpad.net/%7Ezulcss/+archive/server-bug-fixes>when it
> gets built?
>
> Thanks
> chuck
>
> --
> nmbd fails to start on boot - problem with upstart
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/596064
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in “samba” package in Ubuntu: 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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michael brenden (mike-brenden) wrote on 2010-07-13:

#11

Haven't seen any race condition here yet. Problem here was "testparm" is somehow missing from PATH (and entire system)...but that's its own problem. What's annoying is that Upstart reported error 127 in /var/log/daemon.log - not obvious enough. IMO if a pre-script command bombs, as in trying to run a non-existant file, it should sure be obvious to point the finger to the real culprit. Upstart is already the unfortunate flak-catcher-target for decades of messy sysV init script grunge, and so we'd all understand (and benefit) if it did its part to redirect the causes and pains to where best deserved. Thank you for great software, much needed, too.

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MURAKAMI (lev-murakami) wrote on 2010-07-27:

#12

I experienced this (nmbd do not startup at boot), recently after upgrading from ubuntu 9.10 server to 10.04 LTS.

The solution suggested in the Post#7 by Mr Abhishek Mukherjee worked.
(Just adding the line "mkdir /var/run/samba" at just after the "pre-start script" line of /etc/init/nmbd.conf)

Regards.

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Thierry Carrez (ttx) wrote on 2010-08-06:

#13

Should probably be lumped together with bug 572410

Changed in samba (Ubuntu Lucid):
assignee:	nobody → Chuck Short (zulcss)

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Dunkirk (david-davidkrider) wrote on 2010-08-21:

#14

I tested what my /etc/init/nmbd.conf was doing at the command line:

---
root@server2:/var/log# /usr/bin/testparm -s --parameter-name='disable netbios'
Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf
rlimit_max: rlimit_max (1024) below minimum Windows limit (16384)
Processing section "[netlogon]"
Processing section "[profiles]"
Processing section "[homes]"
Processing section "[users]"
Processing section "[groups]"
Processing section "[pdf]"
Processing section "[printers]"
Processing section "[print$]"
.
.
.
Loaded services file OK.
ERROR: the 'unix password sync' parameter is set and there is no valid 'passwd program' parameter.
No
---

I simply got rid of the 'unix password sync' option in my smb.conf file (I wasn't really using it anyway), and everything started working again. Seems like any error in the Samba config is causing an exit code from testparm that's throwing off the stack of scripts that controls starting the process.

Thierry Carrez (ttx) on 2010-08-26

Changed in samba (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → Chuck Short (zulcss)
importance:	High → Medium
Changed in samba (Ubuntu Lucid):
assignee:	Chuck Short (zulcss) → nobody

Thierry Carrez (ttx) on 2010-09-02

tags:

added: server-mrs

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Chuck Short (zulcss) wrote on 2010-10-01:

#15

I havent been able to reproduce this on maverick yet.

chuck

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Dave Walker (davewalker) wrote on 2010-10-01:

#16

@Chuck, were you able to reproduce it on Lucid? Do you consider this was Fix Released for Maverick, somewhere along the cycle?

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Max-Ulrich Farber (maxulrichfarber) wrote on 2010-10-13:

#17

I can reproduce it on Lucid and Maverick under the following conditions:

- the network is a WLAN
- the connection is made by Network Manager or WICD

I don't know what the condition "net-device-up IFACE!=lo" in /etc/init/nmbd.conf is really needed for. Can it be recommended to leave it out and to change the line to "start on local-filesystems", as it is in /etc/init/smbd.conf? Could that leed to some inconveniences?

A workaround is a post-connection script in WICD with the command "service nmbd start".

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Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer) wrote on 2010-11-10:

#18

It looks like the creation of /var/run/samba should happen earlier in the script.

What about the attached patch?

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Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer) wrote on 2010-11-10:

#19

What appears to be happening is that the first time nmbd gets run testparm fails (because pid dir /var/run/samba doesn't exist yet) so nmbd is not started.

After that smbd gets run and its pre-init will create /var/run/samba. So the next time nmbd's pre-init script will work.

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Jean-Michel Dault (jmdault) wrote on 2010-12-10:

#20

It should be:
mkdir -p /var/run/samba

Otherwise if the directory already exists it won't be able to start. So mkdir -p will start in all conditions.

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Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer) wrote on 2010-12-10: Re: [Bug 596064] Re: nmbd fails to start on boot - problem with upstart

#21

On Fri, 2010-12-10 at 20:52 +0000, Jean-Michel Dault wrote:
> It should be:
> mkdir -p /var/run/samba
>
> Otherwise if the directory already exists it won't be able to start. So
> mkdir -p will start in all conditions.
I'm pretty sure "install -d" exits with success if the directory already
exists, too.

Cheers,

Jelmer

Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer) on 2011-01-25

Changed in samba (Ubuntu):
assignee:	Chuck Short (zulcss) → Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2011-01-25:

#22

This bug was fixed in the package samba - 2:3.5.6~dfsg-4ubuntu2

---------------
samba (2:3.5.6~dfsg-4ubuntu2) natty; urgency=low

  * debian/samba.nmbd.upstart: create /var/run/samba directory before running
    testparm. Fixes start-up of nmb after boot. (LP: #596064)
    Thanks to Jelmer Vernooij.
-- Chuck Short <email address hidden> Tue, 25 Jan 2011 10:09:33 -0500

Changed in samba (Ubuntu):
status:	Triaged → Fix Released

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Kylepablo (kylepablo) wrote on 2011-01-28:

#23

nmbd.conf Edit (417 bytes, text/plain)

This bug is still present for me. I have to do nmbd -D manually.

Ubuntu 10.10
samba 2:3.5.4~dfsg-1ub

nmbd.conf is attached.

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Kylepablo (kylepablo) wrote on 2011-01-28:

#24

Confirmed. Adding mkdir -p /var/run/samba just after the "pre-start script" line of /etc/init/nmbd.conf fixes it.

Ubuntu 10.10
samba 2:3.5.4~dfsg-1ub

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Giovanni Panozzo (giox069) wrote on 2011-03-05:

#25

I'm using a wireless connection with wicd (wlan interface is wlan0). Adding mkdir -p /var/run/samba does not solve the problem.
Changing
start on (local-filesystems and net-device-up IFACE!=lo)
to
start on (local-filesystems)
in /etc/init/nmbd.conf fixes it and nmbd starts. But this is not the right way to fix it, because there are other services which depends on "net-device-up".

I think it's wicd not emitting "net-device-up" when my wlan0 comes up. But... how can I check/confirm it ?

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Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer) wrote on 2011-03-05:

#26

Hi giox069,

That's a different issue than this bug (which is already fixed). Can you please file a separate bug report about that?

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Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer) wrote on 2011-03-05:

#27

Kylepablo, this bug was fixed in 2:3.5.6~dfsg-4ubuntu2, so a version newer than what you are running.

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Giovanni Panozzo (giox069) wrote on 2011-03-05:

#28

@Jelmer: ok, I will do further investigation on how wicd works and then file a separate bug report.

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Paul Tansom (aptanet) wrote on 2011-03-06:

#29

Is there a fix for 10.04 LTS, which only runs 2:3.4.7~dfsg-1ubuntu3.4? I don't often reboot my server, but invariably forget to check that nmbd is running when I do!

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Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer) wrote on 2011-03-06:

#30

On Sun, 2011-03-06 at 20:49 +0000, Paul Tansom wrote:
> Is there a fix for 10.04 LTS, which only runs 2:3.4.7~dfsg-1ubuntu3.4? I
> don't often reboot my server, but invariably forget to check that nmbd
> is running when I do!
There is no fix for Maverick yet, but according to the Launchpad page
Chuck will backport a fix to Maverick.

Cheers,

Jelmer

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Nathanel Titane (nathanel.titane) wrote on 2011-03-27:

#31

Still happening in natty amd64

I have to start nmbd manually for full network share (load and access)...

using the mkdir -p fix did not resolve...

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Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer) wrote on 2011-03-27:

#32

On Sun, 2011-03-27 at 18:23 +0000, Cypher2 wrote:
> Still happening in natty amd64
>
> I have to start nmbd manually for full network share (load and
> access)...
>
> using the mkdir -p fix did not resolve...
I suspect you're hitting a different issue, please file a separate bug report.

Cheers,

Jelmer

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Nathanel Titane (nathanel.titane) wrote on 2011-03-27:

#33

actually no.. same issue: when i start the system, only smbd is loaded as
process. when looking at /var/run/samba it is active and populated with no
nmbd PID file. only when I switch to console and run 'sudo start nmbd' that
it loads a process and assigns PID to it.

when I restart or shutdown system and boot again.. nmbd isn't there anymore

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Nathanel Titane (nathanel.titane) wrote on 2011-04-04:

#34

I fixed 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...

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Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer) wrote on 2011-04-04:

#35

Please open a different bug report; although it's related, it's a different issue.

Nice catch, btw.

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Nathanel Titane (nathanel.titane) wrote on 2011-04-04:

#36

oki doki, bug registered as #750786 for natty!

Launchpad Janitor (janitor) on 2011-07-30

Changed in samba (Ubuntu Lucid):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Alroger Filho (alroger-cafe-ti) wrote on 2011-07-30:

#37

Geez, isn' t there a META issue function in launchpad?
nmbd doesn' t startup since 9.04, and now trying to really fix it, without rc.local delayed work arounds, I found a fix for each version of Ubuntu server. Bugs since 2009.

Anyone know why the samba init.d got split up into smbd and nmbd? It all worked when it was just samba.

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camden lindsay (camden-lindsay+launchpad) wrote on 2011-10-08:

#38

I just hit this bug, after updating samba to start after eth0 was up because of bug
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/823878

dylan@strut-google-server:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=lucid
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS"
dylan@strut-google-server:~$ cat /tmp/upstart-nmbd.log
Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf
rlimit_max: rlimit_max (1024) below minimum Windows limit (16384)
Processing section "[Strut Share]"
Processing section "[printers]"
Processing section "[print$]"
Loaded services file OK.
ERROR: lock directory /var/run/samba does not exist
ERROR: pid directory /var/run/samba does not exist
dylan@strut-google-server:~$

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Vasya Pupkin (shadowlmd) wrote on 2012-04-28:

#39

Few days ago nmbd stopped starting on boot for me. I did not change anything at all.

===
user@host:~$ cat /etc/init/nmbd.conf
description "NetBIOS name server"
author "Steve Langasek <email address hidden>"

start on (local-filesystems and net-device-up IFACE=eth0)
stop on runlevel [!2345]

expect fork
respawn

pre-start script
NMBD_DISABLED=`testparm -s --parameter-name='disable netbios' 2>/dev/null`

[ "x$NMBD_DISABLED" = xYes ] && { stop; exit 0; }

install -o root -g root -m 755 -d /var/run/samba
end script

exec nmbd -D
===

This was working fine since I changed "start on" thing as described in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/823878 bug.

I have nothing in logs that could give me a single hint why it's not starting. This bug is obviously not fixed.

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Vasya Pupkin (shadowlmd) wrote on 2012-04-28:

#40

Also, sometimes it starts, sometimes not.

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Vasya Pupkin (shadowlmd) wrote on 2012-04-28:

#41

I added some debug into /etc/init/nmbd.conf so it looks like this:

===
description "NetBIOS name server"
author "Steve Langasek <email address hidden>"

start on (local-filesystems and net-device-up IFACE=eth0)
stop on runlevel [!2345]

expect fork
respawn

pre-start script
NMBD_DISABLED=`testparm -s --parameter-name='disable netbios' 2>/dev/null`
echo `date` $NMBD_DISABLED >/tmp/upstart-nmdb.log

[ "x$NMBD_DISABLED" = xYes ] && { stop; exit 0; }

install -o root -g root -m 755 -d /var/run/samba
end script

exec nmbd -D
===

I was suspecting testparm to return something wrong, but instead, when I rebooted few times and nmbd didn't start again, I didn't even have /tmp/upstart-nmdb.log file which means it didn't hit pre-start script section. I have no idea how can that be. Both smbd.conf and nmbd.conf have "start on (local-filesystems and net-device-up IFACE=eth0)", but somehow first gets started and second doesn't.

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Vasya Pupkin (shadowlmd) wrote on 2012-04-28:

#42

Changing to start on (local-filesystems) did not help, still not starting.

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Vasya Pupkin (shadowlmd) wrote on 2012-04-28:

#43

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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Vasya Pupkin (shadowlmd) wrote on 2012-05-18:

#44

Yesterday after reboot neither smbd, nor nmbd started. There was nothing in logs. Ubuntu server is such a failure.

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Vasya Pupkin (shadowlmd) wrote on 2012-05-18:

#45

After another reboot, smbd started, nmbd didn't, but this time there was a message in log:

May 18 18:27:37 shadow-server init: nmbd pre-start process (882) terminated with status 1

After one more reboot both smbd and nmbd startd. Can someone finally fix this? Can this god damn init be more strict on starting services? And at least provide a good reason why some service did not start, like it is done in Windows for 15 years now?!

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Vasya Pupkin (shadowlmd) wrote on 2012-05-26:

#46

Can someone at least tell me how I can debug this? There is absolutely nothing in logs. nmbd just does not start even with "start on (local-filesystems)" sometimes. smbd starts, nmbd doesn't.

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Aubrey McIntosh (aubrey-mcintosh) wrote on 2012-06-27:

#47

This bug affects me. I am running 10.04 (LTS) on an Oracle VM VirtualBox. I am also setting up a ipv6 tunnel with Hurricane Electric, so I am fiddling with /etc/NetworkManager/{interfaces, system-connections/'Auto eth1'} & /etc/network/interfaces.

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Dan Corso (dancorso) wrote on 2013-07-10:

#49

Hi guys,

try this... replace the "start on" line with:

start on (started smbd)

it tells upstart to respect priorities (worked for me).

Bye,
Daniele

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Rolf Leggewie (r0lf) wrote on 2014-12-03:

#50

maverick has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the maverick task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".

Changed in samba (Ubuntu Maverick):
status:	Triaged → Won't Fix

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Rolf Leggewie (r0lf) wrote on 2015-06-17:

#51

lucid has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the lucid task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".

Changed in samba (Ubuntu Lucid):
status:	Confirmed → Won't Fix

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	Status	Importance	Assigned to
samba (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Jelmer Vernooij
Lucid	Won't Fix	Undecided	Unassigned
Maverick	Won't Fix	Medium	Chuck Short

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