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Re: amanda-2.5.0p2 hanging on smbclient with configure

2006-08-09 07:32:39
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: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 11:20:49 +0100 (BST)
<quote who="Gavin Henry">
> <quote who="Gavin Henry">
>> <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

Upgrading to Samba 3.0.23b fixed it. Not sure, but can now move on.

Thanks.

>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>
> strace smbclient -d 5
>
> show it sitting at:
>
> futex(0x2aaaabdf2dc0, FUTEX_WAIT, 2, NULL
>
> Hmm.
>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology Services        Tel  +32 16
>>>> 397.511
>>>> Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM    Fax  +32 16
>>>> 397.512
>>>> http://www.xplanation.com/          email:
>>>> Paul.Bijnens AT xplanation DOT com
>>>> ***********************************************************************
>>>> * 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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