Sudden samba failure

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Suddendly, the samba daemon fails to start and I cannot reach my shares anymore.
My setup is the latest OSMC on a Raspberry Pi 3, with two USB disks mounted under /disks, that were shared using the OSMC app store samba.
Everything worked fine for a couple of years, but since yesterday the samba service is not working.

Here is the log file:
https://paste.osmc.tv/devikiname

I really don’t know what to check, it stopped working and now I cannot access my media library anymore.

Also, Kodi seems to have been reset and forgot all my customization and my whole media library. I have a MySQL setup, and my movie and tv series library is now empty. The files are still on the filesystem, saved on the two external disks.
I am really confused.

Thanks for any help.

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Hi,

Looks like a similar issue, to this topic:

I would try the steps advised by JimKnopf.

Also one of the drives is showing as full:

/dev/sda1 2,7T 2,6T 13G 100% /disks/3TB

Thanks Tom.

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Thank you for the suggestion!
Unfortunately, I tried to empty the samba cache directory and to restore an original samba conf file, without success.

Here is the log of sudo nmbd -i -S -d 10:
https://paste.osmc.tv/zadanavahi

And the log of sudo smbd -i -S -d 10:
https://paste.osmc.tv/amedazuzug

It seems that samba tells that some lockfile cannot be created because of a non existing directory.

And yes, I know that one of the disks is almost full, it is the main storage for the Kodi video library.

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Hi,

Did you also complete these steps:

Thanks Tom.

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Is your MySQL library and files on the same Pi? That’s what it looks like to me. If so, your settings are a bit odd. Like your media sources being accessed via SMB on the Pi they are connected to?

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Yes Tom, all the samba config are now the default one.

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I have two Pis at home, the main one has MySQL on it and the usb disks attached, shared with smb, to let the second one to access the video library.

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Hi,

I would backup your settings and reinstall osmc and restore. If the issue still persists, try a fresh sd card.

Thanks Tom.

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Might be a stupid suggestion, I’m sure you’ve checked it; but have you confirmed pi IP addresses have not changed? It has happened to me before and was pulling my hair out for ages. Kicked myself when I realised I’d missed it.

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Is the Pi that is having the problem the Pi with the database and drives?

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Yes, it is the problematic one.

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The ip is still the same, it is assigned by static DHCP by the router. For example, I can access the Transmission web interface running on that Pi without issues.

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I was afraid I had to reinstall. Still curious about the root of the issue though.

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Hi,

Sorry can’t answer that, but I’m glad to hear you’re back up and running again.

Thanks Tom.

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Well, before you reinstall the whole system, try a partial installation of samba first. I understood your situation that way that your samba service is still not starting anymore

  1. backup /etc/samba/smb.conf, /etc/samba/smb-local.conf, /etc/samba/smb-shares.conf and /etc/samba/smb.conf.distributed somewhere and delete these files
  2. sudo systemctl disable samba
  3. sudo rm -R /var/cache/samba
  4. sudo apt-get update
  5. sudo apt-get remove samba and confirm the removal
  6. sudo apt-get install samba smb-app-osmc
  7. reboot

This should give you a virgin samba installation.

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Thank you, I will try this!

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I tried, and it worked!
Samba is working again, and I can access my shares!

Now I have another issue, but I will open a new thread.

Thanks!