Package: smbfs Version: 3.0.11-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch Recently, smbmount started to just hang after successfully mounting a share. Google showed that others have reported this behaviour a long time ago, with other versions of samba.
One interesting hit that actually included a patch was http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2003-November/001784.html The described behaviour matches the facts I was able to observe with strace. Guess what, the patch applied (with some minor tweaking) to samba 3.0.11, and it actually solved my problem. So it looks like this long-standing problem has not been fixed yet, and may have been triggered by a recent kernel update. Here is the patch, slightly modified to apply to samba 3.0.11: diff -ur samba-3.0.11.orig/source/client/smbmount.c samba-3.0.11/source/client/smbmount.c --- samba-3.0.11.orig/source/client/smbmount.c 2004-10-25 23:05:11.000000000 +0200 +++ samba-3.0.11/source/client/smbmount.c 2005-04-18 15:49:45.000000000 +0200 @@ -62,6 +62,11 @@ exit(0); } +static void parent_is_ready(int sig) +{ + /* just continue to execute - parent is ready to die :)) */ +} + static void daemonize(void) { int j, status; @@ -75,6 +80,13 @@ if (child_pid > 0) { while( 1 ) { + /* + * Funny, isn't it? ;)) + * But children is pause()ing for this signal + * to go and do preporly thing with parent. + */ + kill(child_pid, SIGTERM); + j = waitpid( child_pid, &status, 0 ); if( j < 0 ) { if( EINTR == errno ) { @@ -92,6 +104,14 @@ exit(WEXITSTATUS(status)); } + /* + * Sometimes parent stay in sys_fork() during children already kill()ing him! + * Deadlock in parent's code as result :( + * Wait for parent's SIGTERM to indicate it's readyness after sys_fork()ing. + */ + signal( SIGTERM, parent_is_ready ); + pause(); + signal( SIGTERM, SIG_DFL ); chdir("/"); } -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-rc2 Locale: LANG=C, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages smbfs depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-21 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libcomerr2 1.37-2 common error description library ii libkrb53 1.3.6-2 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries ii libldap2 2.1.30-6 OpenLDAP libraries ii netbase 4.21 Basic TCP/IP networking system ii samba-common 3.0.11-1 Samba common files used by both th -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
