RE: Samba and spinlocks on Linux (was Re: REPOST: Meaning of"tdb_free: left read failed at ...?"

2003-02-06 Thread Gerald Drouillard
:40 PM > To: Volker Lendecke > Cc: Ralf G. R. Bergs; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Samba and spinlocks on Linux (was Re: REPOST: Meaning of > "tdb_free: left read failed at ...?" > > > On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 11:50:50AM +0100, Volker Lendecke wrote: > > > >

Re: Samba and spinlocks on Linux (was Re: REPOST: Meaning of"tdb_free: left read failed at ...?"

2003-02-05 Thread jra
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 11:50:50AM +0100, Volker Lendecke wrote: > > P.S: I might be wrong, but I'm not sure whether the spinlock code ever actually > worked. Jeremy? Yes they did work and were tested at one stage, but bit-rot may have occurred since then. Jeremy.

Re: Samba and spinlocks on Linux (was Re: REPOST: Meaning of"tdb_free: left read failed at ...?"

2003-02-05 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Wed, 05 Feb 2003 11:50:50 +0100, Volker Lendecke wrote: [...] >you do not have a *very* good reason to enable them, could you please retry >without spinlocks? Ok, I'm just recompiling Samba without spinlock support. Obviously I have to wait until this night so that the fileserver becomes less

Re: Samba and spinlocks on Linux (was Re: REPOST: Meaning of"tdb_free: left read failed at ...?"

2003-02-05 Thread Volker Lendecke
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:21:15AM +0100, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > I guess I should have defined CONFIG_RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK when compiling my > kernel since I also configured Samba with "--with-spinlocks": Ok, this might explain it. Spinlocks are definitely a less tested part of the code. I h

Re: REPOST: Meaning of "tdb_free: left read failed at ...?"

2003-02-05 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Tue, 04 Feb 2003 19:34:16 -0600 (CST), Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote: >On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > >> What exactly does that mean? I compiled Samba with large file support. >> Was this an error? I absolutely NEED large-file support. (To recap, this >> is under Debian/GNU Linux/i

Re: REPOST: Meaning of "tdb_free: left read failed at ...?"

2003-02-04 Thread Gerald (Jerry) Carter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > What exactly does that mean? I compiled Samba with large file support. > Was this an error? I absolutely NEED large-file support. (To recap, this > is under Debian/GNU Linux/i386 3.0, running kernel 2.4.20

Re: REPOST: Meaning of "tdb_free: left read failed at ...?"

2003-02-04 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Tue, 04 Feb 2003 09:37:17 -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: [...] >> Why should Samba be the ONLY (apparent) application that doesn't feel hap= >py with=20 >> XFS over EVMS? > >I'm running Samba on XFS+EVMS (on Debian ;) with no problems. Even on >buggy versions of XFS, I've never seen this error;

Re: REPOST: Meaning of "tdb_free: left read failed at ...?"

2003-02-04 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 10:17:34AM +0100, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > On Sun, 02 Feb 2003 15:44:18 +0100, Simo Sorce wrote: > > >> The system in question is a Debian i386 "stable" (3.0) system, kernel is > >> 2.4.20 release (with some patches such as EVMS and XFS, but EVMS is NOT in > use > >> fo

Re: REPOST: Meaning of "tdb_free: left read failed at ...?"

2003-02-04 Thread Volker Lendecke
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 10:17:34AM +0100, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > Ok, now /var/run/samba is an ext3 filesystem -- and the problem is back > again. :-( Thanks nevertheless. As one resort, could you try use mmap = no Volker msg05756/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: REPOST: Meaning of "tdb_free: left read failed at ...?"

2003-02-04 Thread Alexander Bokovoy
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 10:17:34AM +0100, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > Ok, now /var/run/samba is an ext3 filesystem -- and the problem is back again. > :-( > > So you could argue, "Ok, it's EVMS then which is the culprit," because > filesystem is on an EVMS logical volume. > > But I simply cannot

Re: REPOST: Meaning of "tdb_free: left read failed at ...?"

2003-02-04 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Sun, 02 Feb 2003 15:44:18 +0100, Simo Sorce wrote: >> The system in question is a Debian i386 "stable" (3.0) system, kernel is >> 2.4.20 release (with some patches such as EVMS and XFS, but EVMS is NOT in use >> for shares exported via Samba!!), Samba is 2.2.7a (a Debian package that I >> c

Re: REPOST: Meaning of "tdb_free: left read failed at ...?"

2003-02-04 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Mon, 03 Feb 2003 17:20:26 -0600 (CST), Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote: [...] >Looks like the tdb went over the 4Gb line. As a quick work around, >Stop nmbd; rm /var/run/samba/unexpected.tdb; and start nmbd back up. No, this has never been a work-around. The problem comes up again VERY quickly.

Re: REPOST: Meaning of "tdb_free: left read failed at ...?"

2003-02-03 Thread Gerald (Jerry) Carter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > since I upgraded our fileserver running Debian 3.0/i386 with Samba 2.2.7a (a > package I created myself) I'm seeing the following messages in syslog: > > Jan 28 14:55:50 Fileserver nmbd[22451]: [2003/01/

Re: REPOST: Meaning of "tdb_free: left read failed at ...?"

2003-02-02 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Sun, 02 Feb 2003 15:44:18 +0100, Simo Sorce wrote: >On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 15:58, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: >> On Sun, 02 Feb 2003 14:47:11 +0100, Simo Sorce wrote: >> >> >> >you can try to delete unexpected.tdb >> >> >it does not hold any vital information. >> >> >> >> The problem has reappeare

Re: REPOST: Meaning of "tdb_free: left read failed at ...?"

2003-02-02 Thread Simo Sorce
On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 15:58, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > On Sun, 02 Feb 2003 14:47:11 +0100, Simo Sorce wrote: > > >> >you can try to delete unexpected.tdb > >> >it does not hold any vital information. > >> > >> The problem has reappeared even after I removed the above file: > >> > >> Feb 2 11:18

Re: REPOST: Meaning of "tdb_free: left read failed at ...?"

2003-02-02 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Sun, 02 Feb 2003 14:47:11 +0100, Simo Sorce wrote: >> >you can try to delete unexpected.tdb >> >it does not hold any vital information. >> >> The problem has reappeared even after I removed the above file: >> >> Feb 2 11:18:29 Fileserver nmbd[22451]: [2003/02/02 11:18:29, 0] >> tdb/tdbutil.

REPOST: Meaning of "tdb_free: left read failed at ...?"

2003-02-01 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
Hi there, I can't believe that NO-ONE of you tech guys can comment on this?! Thanks, Ralf = 8x == Hi there, since I upgraded our fileserver running Debian 3.0/i386 with Samba 2.2.7a (a package I created myself) I'm seeing the following messages