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Greyhole uses Samba to create a storage pool of all your available hard drives, and allows you to create redundant copies of the files you store.
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Ubuntu: Greyhole not starting #152

Closed ralle12345 closed 8 years ago

ralle12345 commented 8 years ago

Hi,

after samba was updated this morning on my ubuntu 14.04 server greyhole won't start anymore. THe current version of samba is 4.3.8+dfsg-0ubuntu0.14.04.2.

When greyhole is started, the following error is logged:

Apr 19 10:09:11 WARN initialize: Found a share (Movies) defined in /etc/greyhole.conf with no path in /etc/samba/smb.conf. Either add this share in /etc/samba/smb.conf, or remove it from /etc/greyhole.conf, then restart Greyhole.
Apr 19 10:09:11 CRITICAL initialize: Config file parsing failed. Exiting.

However, greping the smb.conf shows that there is a share with name 'Movies':

grep -A 5 Movies /etc/samba/smb.conf
[Movies]
        path = /storage/landingzone/movies
        read only = No
        create mask = 0775
        force create mode = 0775
        directory mask = 0775

I tried reinstalling the greyhole deb since samba was updated from 4.1.something to 4.3, but it didn't help to get up and running again. Is there any way to further increase the loglevel from DEBUG to INSANELYCHATTY to find out where the problem lies?

Thanks for any help you can provide!

gboudreau commented 8 years ago

Try: testparm -s /etc/samba/smb.conf The output of that command is what Greyhole is using to know what is included in smb.conf

gboudreau commented 8 years ago

BTW, you will probably have issues trying to mount your Greyhole shares too. Ref: https://github.com/gboudreau/Greyhole/issues/153

ralle12345 commented 8 years ago

Thanks for your help. I got it all up and running again. The Issue with greyhole not starting was caused by me having security=share in my smb.conf which led to a problem loading the config by testparm.

The instructions on rebuilding the .so worked like a charm. At first I tried to take the easy route by trying to apt-get source samba, but that didn't work. After following you instructions it worked out. I didn't use the vfs_greyhole-samba-4.4.c source, but the vfs_greyhole-samba-4.3.c since I use samba 4.3, though.

Thanks for your extremely quick help!