Re: samba/nmbd unable to find interface in domu

["Sarton O'Brien" <bsd-xen%roguewrt.org@localhost>]

On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:57:05 pm Sarton O'Brien wrote:
> I'm seeing this on a current domu running the latest pkgsrc version of
> samba:
>
> [2008/03/28 14:26:05, 0] nmbd/nmbd_subnetdb.c:create_subnets(191)
>   create_subnets: Waiting for an interface to appear ...
> [2008/03/28 14:32:11, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:reload_interfaces(229)
>   reload_interfaces: No subnets to listen to. Shutting down...
>
> And when I specify xennet0 as the interface:
>
> [2008/03/28 14:39:22, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:main(697)
>   Netbios nameserver version 3.0.26a started.
>   Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2007
> [2008/03/28 14:39:22, 0] lib/interface.c:load_interfaces(229)
>   WARNING: no network interfaces found
> [2008/03/28 14:39:22, 0] nmbd/nmbd_subnetdb.c:create_subnets(190)
>   create_subnets: No local interfaces !
> [2008/03/28 14:39:22, 0] nmbd/nmbd_subnetdb.c:create_subnets(191)
>   create_subnets: Waiting for an interface to appear ...
>
>
> I've actually been seeing this for some time, right around when dhcpd
> was being discussed and there was some network related breakage in
> pkgsrc due to some software obtaining an interface value incorrectly. I
> assumed samba was one of these packages ... but some time has passed and
> I haven't heard a whisper.
>
> Is this domu specific? I don't particularly want to install samba to my
> dom0 just to check ... but it's a possibility ...

Errr ... I updated to a more recent kernel at some point and this seems to 
have been fixed ... no more errors. And I was just about to send-pr on the 
pkg. Thanks ... whoever you are.

Sarton