[Samba] samba PANIC

[Michael Wood]

On 30 November 2011 11:38, Volker Lendecke <Volker.Lendecke at sernet.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 09:55:55AM +0100, skull wrote:
>> no problem. (why didn't i think of this myself? :-) )
>>
>> heres /var/log/messages:
>> http://pastebin.com/KcciHs5L
>>
>> and heres /var/log/samba/smbd.log
>> http://pastebin.com/mezTnNm6
>
> Nov 30 07:00:24 dc smbd[16828]: tdb(/var/lib/samba/locking.tdb): tdb_rec_read bad magic 0x42424242 at offset=3494648
>
> In the past these problems have often been caused by bad
> hardware.

If it's bad hardware, where does the "BBBB" come from?  Seems sort of
unlikely (although, of course, not impossible.)

Does tdb ever set things to 0x42424242 somewhere in order to mark it
as "freed" or something?  I don't see anything like that from a
cursory glance at the code, though.

-- 
Michael Wood <esiotrot at gmail.com>