(mistakenly posted to samba-technical first, oops) Hello, I'm using Samba 2.0.7 on Linux 2.2.17 and recently started encountering a problem where shared memory is marked for deletion (preventing other samba processes from starting.) When I map a drive (win 2000 client), an entry is placed in the shared memory table: ------ Shared Memory Segments -------- key shmid owner perms bytes nattch status 0x00280267 36353 root 644 1048576 1 When I run smbstatus, it attaches to the shared memory (to scan for locked files I guess) and then does an IPC_RMID on the segment. This markes the segment as destroyed. Now when I attempt to map a drive from a different client or run smbstatusagain, smbd or smbstatus eventually hits the code which does: shmget(2622055, 0, 0) = -1 EIDRM (Identifier removed) shmget(2622055, 1048576, IPC_CREAT|IPC_EXCL|0x1a4|0644) = -1 EEXIST (File exists) So neither can get the shared memory segment, since it's marked for destruction, nor can the segment be created (EEXIST). This may have shown up after the latest kernel upgrade, but it seems like the kernel is operating as it should. ...and I've been using 2.0.7 since it was first released. Anyone know what's the cause of this problem is? Thanks in advance, Mike Morgan -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: mmorgan.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 480 bytes Desc: Card for Mike Morgan Url : http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/attachments/20001121/5d17e244/mmorgan.vcf