Package: samba Version: 3.0.23b-1 Severity: normal After upgrading to the latest version of Samba in unstable, Samba fails to start, reporting the following error in /var/log/daemon.log:
Aug 10 05:39:34 anang nmbd[26413]: [2006/08/10 05:39:34, 0] lib/interface.c:load_interfaces(197) Aug 10 05:39:34 anang nmbd[26413]: ERROR: Could not determine network interfaces, you must use a interfaces config line Aug 10 05:39:34 anang smbd[26414]: [2006/08/10 05:39:34, 0] lib/interface.c:load_interfaces(197) Aug 10 05:39:34 anang smbd[26414]: ERROR: Could not determine network interfaces, you must use a interfaces config line After adding the interfaces line to my /etc/samba/smb.conf config file, Samba reports the following error every five seconds, but starts and is accessible over the network (at least from my Mac running Tiger): Aug 10 05:41:38 anang nmbd[26437]: [2006/08/10 05:41:38, 0] lib/interface.c:load_interfaces(225) Aug 10 05:41:38 anang nmbd[26437]: WARNING: no network interfaces found Aug 10 05:41:38 anang nmbd[26437]: [2006/08/10 05:41:38, 0] nmbd/nmbd_subnetdb.c:create_subnets(190) Aug 10 05:41:38 anang nmbd[26437]: create_subnets: No local interfaces ! Aug 10 05:41:38 anang nmbd[26437]: [2006/08/10 05:41:38, 0] nmbd/nmbd_subnetdb.c:create_subnets(191) Aug 10 05:41:38 anang nmbd[26437]: create_subnets: Waiting for an interface to appear ... Aug 10 05:41:39 anang smbd[26438]: [2006/08/10 05:41:39, 0] lib/interface.c:load_interfaces(225) Aug 10 05:41:39 anang smbd[26438]: WARNING: no network interfaces found My network settings have not changed, and Samba did not report these errors before. Below is my (rather minimal) /etc/samba/smb.conf file: [global] workgroup = TMBG use kerberos keytab = yes interfaces = eth0 bind interfaces only = yes realm = TMBG [homes] read only = no eth0 receives its configuration through DHCP from my router. Also, removing the line "bind interfaces only" does not fix the error. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-1-amd64-k8-smp Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages samba depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.3 Debian configuration management sy ii libacl1 2.2.41-1 Access control list shared library ii libattr1 2.4.32-1 Extended attribute shared library ii libc6 2.3.6-19 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcomerr2 1.39-1 common error description library ii libcupsys2 1.2.2-1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii libgnutls13 1.4.1-1 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr ii libkrb53 1.4.3-9 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries ii libldap2 2.1.30-13+b1 OpenLDAP libraries ii libpam-modules 0.79-3.1 Pluggable Authentication Modules f ii libpam-runtime 0.79-3.1 Runtime support for the PAM librar ii libpam0g 0.79-3.1 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libpopt0 1.10-3 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii logrotate 3.7.1-3 Log rotation utility ii lsb-base 3.1-12 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip ii netbase 4.25 Basic TCP/IP networking system ii procps 1:3.2.7-2 /proc file system utilities ii samba-common 3.0.23b-1 Samba common files used by both th ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime Versions of packages samba recommends: pn smbldap-tools <none> (no description available) -- debconf information: samba/nmbd_from_inetd: samba/run_mode: daemons samba/log_files_moved: samba/tdbsam: false samba/generate_smbpasswd: true -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]