[ale] Samba: file corruption on write to share followed by hang

[Jim Kinney]

time to run memtest

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Jeff Hubbs <jhubbslist at att.net> wrote:

> Troubling behavior under Samba 3.0.33:  when a certain win2K user opened
> an excel file and saved it, it showed to be corrupted on the next open.
> If same user simply dragged a file down from the Samba share and dragged
> it back, the file had changed (shown by md5sum) even if the size were
> the same.  I was troubleshooting this when a few hours later, all
> authentication and share access hung up.  I shelled into the server and
> a ps aux would only get so far and hang w/o completing.  Top would not
> start - no output, just hang.  Restarted samba; everything started
> working again and the file corruption on share went away (by "went
> away", I mean that the files weren't being changed anymore when written
> back to the server).  What the hey??
>
> FWIW, the server had been up for 91 days in a 150-200 user office.  I
> don't think Samba had been restarted in that time.
>
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