2.2.2 tdb code broken for HP-UX?

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at pcug.org.au
Tue Oct 16 08:15:01 GMT 2001


Jeremy Allison wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 12:43:33PM +0200, Michael Steffens wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm currently testing Samba 2.2.2 on HP-UX 11.00, and unfortunately
> > got into trouble with the latest 2_2 CVS release (as of yesterday,
> > but there seem to be no changes since then).
> >
> > Configure and compilation went fine. I removed all *.tdb files from
> > previous versions, successfully joined an existing NT 4.0 domain,
> > and finally launched smbd and nmbd. But no domain logons were possible
> > and log.smbd complained:
> >
> >  [2001/10/14 17:30:12, 0] smbd/connection.c:(62)
> >    yield_connection: tdb_delete for name  failed with error Record does not exist.
> 
> This is harmless and doesn't mean a corrucpt tdb. You can
> ignore this.
> 
> Jeremy.

I'm not convinced that this is indeed harmless.  If we attempt to delete
a record that does not exist then there is a logic flaw within samba, is
there not?

I think that we should chase this down before we squash the error
message,

Thanks,

Andrew Bartlett

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