On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:17:29PM -1000, kanenas@hawaii.rr.com wrote:
a few days ago i posted that my month old 11.1 suse install suddenly lost the ability to start the nfs server automatically or from Yast, now the server only starts from the command line. today i found out that the samba server is also screwed up, something about the smbfs not being capable of starting,
The smbfs init script mounts any cifs file system defined in /etc/fstab or /etc/samba/smbfstab Only by historical reasons it is still named smbfs. We'll rename it soon to cifs. Such a rename might lead to an activated cifs service even if the administrator disabled smbfs in the past. Unfortunately we don't see an alternative to this rename approach.
also an old, circa suse 9.2 complaint about "can not write pam settings" when trying to install windows membership in yast.
Even 'circa' 9.2 is ancient and no longer fed with security updates. And IIRC the rename of the YaST module to 'windows domain membership' happened in the time of 10.1. Therefore your report sounds a bit strange.
this is a vanilla install, with the addition of kernel sources (for vmware install), the basic suse repositories, also packman and vlc for the multimedia apps, the only kde ever installed and used has been kde3. again, both samba and nfs were working fine a week ago. it is very probable that some "security update" did the damage,
No. This is very unlikely.
but I have allready tried the downgrade s to samba and winbind without success.
Two things came again into my mind: a) Never ever provide the particular version you use. 'circa' 9.2 is a perfect example how a report should be handled. I'll suggest to the bugzilla team to add such a product version. :) With other words: Providing as much as possible and correct information with the initial posting or bugreport makes it much easier (if not even possible) to handle the issue. And unbelievable but true there is even a dedicated page about how to report a (samba) bug in the openSUSE wiki. See http://en.opensuse.org/Submitting_Bug_Reports b) Please define 'downgrade' as there are different ways to perform this. What might happened is the following: As soon as you uninstall a component which provided an init script - as both packages samba and samba-winbind do - the uninstall ensures to remove the sym links to start and stop the no longer available service. And your new install does not activate the service. This is a reasonable, defensive approach. Cause a not running service can't provide any weak point. Lars -- Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ] Samba Team SUSE Linux, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany