Samba on YDL 2.1

[Chris Boot]

Hi all,

I've managed to figure out what was wrong, but I'm still wondering why.
After Apache started crashing with the same symptoms, I realized that it
must be something deeper within my system that's causing the trouble.  I
tried many different things, then went to downgrade my glibc down to the
2.2.1 that I installed the system with rather than the 2.2.4 that yup had
installed.  After that, everything works fine.

So I suppose the next question is why would this upgrade cause such
breakage?  I know that upgrading glibc on a running system is a bad idea,
but if so why was such an upgrade offered in yup?

> I installed YDL 2.1 on an OldWorld 5400/180 and ran yup to fetch all the
> updates (glibc-2.2.4, binutils, gcc, etc...) and followed by installing a new
> kernel from the linuxppc_2_4 branch (2.4.19-pre8) and Samba 2.2.3a.
> 
> The problem I am having is that after launching nmbd, the system becomes
> completely unusable.  Any program that is run (whether it is login, init,
> mgetty, shutdown, etc...) crashed with a segfault and dumps core.  This does
> not happen is I don't launch nmbd and doesn't happen if I only launch smbd.  I
> then tried with Samba 2.2.4 and get the same results.
> 
> I have tried with several different kernel versions, both standard kernel.org
> versions and ppc-patched versions, and all yield the same result, too.  I've
> kept the configuration the same in all versions, but all other programs run
> fine, I'm only having trouble with nmbd.
> 
> If anyone can provide any kind of pointer whatsoever, I would be eternally
> grateful.  This machine's only purpose is to serve a bunch of Samba shares,
> and I don't want to have to buy a new swanky computer for such a simple task
> (that it did soo well with LinuxPPC 2000, before my hard drive crashed :-( )

-- 
Chris Boot
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