> I am having trouble with a samba server version 2.2.5 on SuSe 8.1. > > Very often my samba processes get to state D and can't be killed > anymore. > The clients seem to continue to connect and so I get even more dead > samba > processes. > These processes can't be killed, all I can do is reboot the machine.
We have Suse 8.2 + samba3 (reiserfs). We had hardware problems and server crashed few times. After that I noticed same thing that you, certain users smbd processes get to state D and so on.. Also I noticed that disk containing user homedirectories was reported NOT clean at startup. I halted machine and ran fsck to that disk. Disk was reported clean at startup, but after a while there was a bunch of smbd processes in state D again. And disk was NOT clean again. We have roaming profiles on users homedirectories and it turned out that those users who got smbd:s in state D had corrupted profile files and that messed up reiserfs. So I backed up those profile directories and deleted them. After that I ran fsck and restored profile files. We haven't got those problems anymore. So at least check that the disk is clean and if possible backup and restore user disks. Hannu -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
