wbinfo -u. If you don't do this, you can't use sudo, pwd won't work (a lot of stuff breaks, essentially). So, to hack around it, I wrote a script called keepActiveDirectoryAlive and put it in $HOME/bin.keepActiveDirectoryAlive:
#!/bin/bash
while true
do
sleep 30s; wbinfo -u;
done
Easy! This probably isn't the best or most efficient way to do this, so if you have a better idea, I am more than welcome to suggestions.
I set this to start with GNOME in my Sessions. I also had to set
wbinfo -u to run in /etc/rc.local (though I seem to remember Ubuntu/Debian ignoring this file) so that I can login through GDM. It seems to be working as expected.
It's called cron. Use it.
ReplyDeleteThere isn't any difference between what I am doing here and what cron does.
ReplyDeleteOne suggestion would be to file a bug if you haven't already...
ReplyDeleteThere is already a bug open for it (has been since dapper iirc).
ReplyDeleteYou might wanna try Likewise, which works pretty much okay for us. I can't remember ever having had these problems with winbind. This sounds like a serious show-stopper to me.
ReplyDeleteThis is ugly. Instead some supervising daemon should be used, like
ReplyDeletecapabilities of SMF in Solaris 10: if a "service" dies it respawn it, I
really miss this from Linux, to have a robust init mechanism which can
handle this as well. Maybe upstart is able to do this, just currently it's
used merely in SysV init compatible mode, no major gain from upstart this
way for a while ... It can be useful for many services which should be
restarted if something bad happens ...
I've had the same problem since I first installed winbind with Ubuntu 7.04. I worked around it by having cron run the following script every minute:
ReplyDelete#!/bin/bash
if ! /usr/bin/wbinfo -p > /dev/null ; then
/usr/bin/killall -9 winbindd
/etc/init.d/winbind stop
/etc/init.d/samba restart
/etc/init.d/winbind start
fi
if I didn't kill samba and winbind in this way when the winbind ping failed... I could login or much else.
I really hope this gets fixed someday :-/
PS - *please* enable OpenID commenting :-)
I know this is pretty old, but did you ever get this fixed? I've been using the script someone posted and added it as a cron job every minute, but winbind still dies on me. Any link to the official bug, so I can follow it?
ReplyDelete