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Re: amanda-2.5.0p2 hanging on smbclient with configure

2006-08-08 11:46:57
Subject: Re: amanda-2.5.0p2 hanging on smbclient with configure
From: "Gavin Henry" <ghenry AT suretecsystems DOT com>
To: "Paul Bijnens" <paul.bijnens AT xplanation DOT com>
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 16:37:16 +0100 (BST)
<quote who="Gavin Henry">
> <quote who="Paul Bijnens">
>> On 2006-08-08 16:17, Gavin Henry wrote:
>>>
>>> Currently trying to compile 2.5.0p2 with:
>>>
>>> ./configure --with-user=amanda --with-group=disk --with-ssh-security
>>> --with-config=Suretec --with-changer-device=/dev/sg2
>>> --with-tape-device=/dev/nst0
>>>
>>> But configure just sits there at:
>>>
>>> checking for smbclient... /usr/bin/smbclient
>>>
>>> Same when adding --with-smbclient=/usr/bin/smbclient
>>
>>
>> If you do not need smbclient support, then you can configure
>> with  "--without-smbclient"  and work around this problem.
>
> I have tried that, and with --with-smbclient=no.
>
> I've been going through configure.in to see what the probs are.
>
>>
>> If you do need it...  then try to investigate what is blocking.
>> It seems like "configure" is hanging in one of the next steps.
>>
>> Configure tries to find out what version of smbclient you have
>> by running the command:
>>
>> smbclient '\\not.a.host.name\notashare' -U nosuchuser -N -Tx /dev/null
>
> Looks like it's this. It just hangs.
>

Must be smbclient, as it is taking forever, even when I jsut run:

smblcient

with no options.

Forget it, will debug smbclient. Nothing wrong with Amanda.

Thanks all.

> I just setup 2 clients on Fedora Core 5 with 2.5.0p2, and they both are
> fine.
>
> The server is on a SUSE 9.3 x86_64 box, that has (Is a Samba PDC too):
>
> free -m
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:          3961        296       3665          0         48        154
> -/+ buffers/cache:         93       3868
> Swap:         2070          0       2070
>
> uname -a
> Linux nas1 2.6.14.2-smp #2 SMP Thu Nov 17 15:31:40 GMT 2005 x86_64 x86_64
> x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1              73G  6.0G   67G   9% /
> tmpfs                 2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/sdb              6.9T  263G  6.6T   4% /storage
>
> lsscsi
> [0:0:0:0]    disk    ATA      HTS541080G9SA00  MB4O  /dev/sda
> [4:0:1:0]    tape    CERTANCE ULTRIUM 2        1775  /dev/st0
> [4:0:1:1]    mediumx QUANTUM  UHDL             000E  -
> [6:0:0:0]    disk    Areca    ARC-1160-VOL#00  R001  /dev/sdb
>
>>
>> What happens if you run that manually?
>
> Hangs
>
>> The output of that step does not appear on screen however, so it could
>> be that configure is actually hanging on the step after that.
>
> I think it's smbclient that is the problem.
>
>>
>> The next step is finding out where the "gzip" program lives.
>> Is does that by looking in several directories.
>> If one of those directories happens to be mounted on a non-responsive
>> NFS-server, you hang here too.
>>
>> The list of directories is:
>> /bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/ucb:/usr/bsd:/etc:/usr/etc
>> /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/ccs/bin
>> and the value of $PATH from the user that runs configure.
>>
>> Anything strange when trying "test -e /bin/gzip"?  (Try that for
>> all the above dirs)
>
> Nope, looks fine.
>
>>
>>
>> --
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>> ***********************************************************************
>> * I think I've got the hang of it now:  exit, ^D, ^C, ^\, ^Z, ^Q, ^^, *
>> * F6, quit, ZZ, :q, :q!, M-Z, ^X^C, logoff, logout, close, bye, /bye, *
>> * stop, end, F3, ~., ^]c, +++ ATH, disconnect, halt,  abort,  hangup, *
>> * PF4, F20, ^X^X, :D::D, KJOB, F14-f-e, F8-e,  kill -1 $$,  shutdown, *
>> * init 0, kill -9 1, Alt-F4, Ctrl-Alt-Del, AltGr-NumLock, Stop-A, ... *
>> * ...  "Are you sure?"  ...   YES   ...   Phew ...   I'm out          *
>> ***********************************************************************
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