The setup: Downloaded from samba-2.2 branch of cvs as of 9 okt. (also tried 2.okt) installed on a redhat 7.1 2.4.7 i386 system The problem: the smbd process serving a NT 4.0sp6 workstation uses 80+ % cpu smbstatus reveals that the pid is attached as "smbguest" to the IPC$ share. The workstation has opened up another IPC connection at this point. The problem do not show up in samba-2.2.1a Backtrace of running process: Attaching to program: /usr/sbin/smbd, process 15383 Reading symbols from /lib/libdl.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libdl.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/libnsl.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libnsl.so.1 Reading symbols from /lib/libpam.so.0...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libpam.so.0 Reading symbols from /lib/i686/libc.so.6...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/i686/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/libnss_files.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libnss_files.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/libnss_nisplus.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libnss_nisplus.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/libnss_dns.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libnss_dns.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/libresolv.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libresolv.so.2 0x080b6414 in chroot () (gdb) bt #0 0x080b6414 in chroot () #1 0x08238c90 in ?? () at eval.c:41 #2 0x0811ac5a in chroot () #3 0x080810a9 in chroot () #4 0x08082558 in chroot () #5 0x0804cbf8 in chroot () #6 0x4006f177 in __libc_start_main (main=0x804c500 <chroot+3788>, argc=2, ubp_av=0xbffffae4, init=0x804a89c <_init>, fini=0x812d760 <_fini>, rtld_fini=0x4000e184 <_dl_fini>, stack_end=0xbffffadc) at ../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c:129 (gdb) -- Eirik Thorsnes