smbd Process Core Dumps And Samba Service Enters Maintenance Mode When Starting - Samba log reports Abnormal server exit: open_sockets_smbd() failed (Doc ID 1583801.1)

Last updated on JUNE 29, 2018

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Symptoms

When enabling Samba service in a Solaris 11.1 non-global zone the samba SMF service would enter maintenance mode and the smbd process being initiated would core dump.

The Samba log file log.smbd contained entries such as:

[2013/08/16 14:47:59,  0] smbd/server.c:1026(main)
 smbd version 3.6.12 started.
 Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2011
[2013/08/16 14:47:59.192659,  0] smbd/server.c:595(smbd_open_one_socket)
 open_sockets_smbd: listen: Operation not supported on transport endpoint
[2013/08/16 14:47:59.193121,  0] smbd/server_exit.c:168(exit_server_common)
 ===============================================================
[2013/08/16 14:47:59.193183,  0] smbd/server_exit.c:169(exit_server_common)
 Abnormal server exit: open_sockets_smbd() failed
[2013/08/16 14:47:59.193249,  0] smbd/server_exit.c:171(exit_server_common)
 ===============================================================
[2013/08/16 14:47:59.196071,  0] lib/util.c:1220(log_stack_trace)
 BACKTRACE: 4 stack frames:
  #0 /usr/sbin/smbd'log_stack_trace+0x20 [0x4fe6e8]
  #1 /usr/sbin/smbd'exit_server_common+0x3c4 [0x855604]
  #2 /usr/sbin/smbd'main+0x1154 [0x855028]
  #3 /usr/sbin/smbd'_start+0x108 [0xf65e0]
[2013/08/16 14:47:59.196254,  0] lib/fault.c:372(dump_core)
 dumping core in /var/samba/log/cores/smbd

Executing the pstack command on the smbd core file displayed the following stack:

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