smb error

[cdlaforc]

Hello,
I have just setup a samba share and tried to start the smb service and it fails. If I try to start it from the command line I get this error:

Starting SMB services: /etc/init.d/functions: line 83: 16565 Aborted $nice $*

Any ideas?
Thanks,

Chris.

[cdlaforc]

Hello,
This was found to be a bug and the work around is to for now uncheck the enforcing checkbox in the selinux gui.
Thanks,

Chris.

[scarab02]

Hello,

Do you happen to have a link to the bug report??? I am running Fedora as a CLI only... I couldn't find the bug report via bugzilla. I am starting to feel like a hopeless case... Never had a problem with starting Samba before now - jesh.

thanks,
chris

[scarab02]

Found answer on Bugzilla: (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla....cgi?id=158802)

Samba can be started manually using /usr/sbin/smbd -D. I have become to complacent using 'server X stop/start/status'.

-c.

[nveteran]

I solved this problem, but it's strange.

I did following.

# cd /etc/init.d/

# cp smb samba
# mv smb smb.bak
# mv samba smb --> just swap

# diff smb smb.bak --> same

# service smb restart
root 5566 1 0 12:58 ? 00:00:00 smbd -D
root 5567 5566 0 12:58 ? 00:00:00 smbd -D
root 5569 1 0 12:58 ? 00:00:00 nmbd -D

[hollymcr]

Originally Posted by nveteran

I solved this problem, but it's strange.

Odd, but it just worked for me too (thanks for posting it, and I'm glad I didn't follow my first instinct to ignore it because it shouldn't have made a difference).

Only thing I can think of is that the file date will have changed by doing this. If so, "touch smb" should have worked (too late to check now).

[macob]

The "copy then rename" trick is essentially changing the selinux context.
If you did an 'ls -Z smb' before doing this, you would see that the context was:
system_u:object_r:initrc_exec_t

When you copied the smb file, you created a new file which got the default contex of:
root:object_r:etc_t

You then renamed the copy back to smb. You could have accomplished the same thing with the command:

chcon root:object_r:etc_t smb

But, alas, this still didn't solve the problem. Sure I could now start smb manually, but I still get the same "Aborted" error on system startup.

The solution for me was to indeed turn off selinux enforcement for smb.
Since I don't have a GUI installed, I used the command line command:

setsebool -P smbd_disable_trans 1

(I got the command line directions from here )

[seamus]

Thanks to macob for resolving my problem.
Also nveteran helped me a lot.

[superkun]

Thanks to nveteran for giving a workaround solution.
Thanks to macob for explaning the real reason hidden behind, or I would be confused for some time.