On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 07:12:56AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > Given the time of the reload, I had probably suspended and resumed my
> > laptop. I bring down all the network interfaces on suspend in
> > anticipation of coming up on a new interface elsewhere.

> including the "lo" interface?

The lo interface isn't enough to convince nmbd that you have a network
(since nmbd serves no purpose on a loopback interface).

> > Looks like the reload_interfaces simply neglected to clean up after
> > itself.

> Yep, that seems to be the cause.

> nmbd regularly checks the interfaces it's listening to and shuts down
> when none is active.

> This raises two concerns, imho:

> -there could be an option for not doing so, maybe

IIRC, specifying interfaces in smb.conf explicitly addresses this.

> -why is nmbd not cleaning its PID file? Here this is not a crash, this
>  is a "normal" shutdown of the process....

Isn't it an assertion failure?

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