[nylug-talk] Help! Samba Issue

[Ari Jort]

Erich,

A few questions to help you isolate the problem:

1) Can you reliably reproduce this problem?  More than 3 times?
2) If the problem is triggered by a file copy over smb, can you 
   also trigger the problem with a comparable file copy over rsync 
   nfs or from a local disk?
3) What, if anything, appears on the console at crashtime?
4) Is the console locked up as well?  Can you login?
5) If you tap the the Caps Lock key at the console, does the light go on?
6) Do you have the magic alt-sysrq key enabled?  If so, can you get output
   from that?
7) What appears in syslog at the time of the crash?
8) Do you have a full partition?
9) Does it happen if you use a vanilla kernel?

And try samba 2.2.8a 
See here: http://us2.samba.org/samba/ftp/WHATSNEW-2.2.8a.txt

Good luck,

ari



On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 11:36:37AM -0400, Erich Beckmann wrote:
 
>     I get Samba all up and running and configure two shares and no printers
> (home directory share and apache's home dir).
>     The problem is, whenever I try to copy more than a certain amount of
> data, about 60MB or so, the whole system locks up.
>     No shell, no samba, no apache, no kernel, as far as I can tell.
>     Small files, under 10MB, seem to work fine.
> 
> Network interfaces eth0 and eth2 are the devices for the sharing. One
> network public and one network private.
> System specs are listed after my signature. I appreciate any help anyone can
> offer.