corrupt sessionid.tdb

Tim Potter tpot at samba.org
Wed Jul 3 16:26:01 GMT 2002


On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 04:46:39PM +0200, Volker Lendecke wrote:

> > > I may be wrong but I remember a fix in 2.2.5, I think jeremy or jerry
> > > may tell you more however.
> > 
> > Not for tdb corruption.  
> 
> Thanks. I recently got another error message from that machine, running 2.2.4:
> 
> [2002/07/01 07:56:17, 0, pid=3781] passdb/passdb.c:pdb_init_sam(116)
>   pdb_init_sam: error while allocating memory
> 
> This essentially means that process 3781 can not malloc about 13k of memory.
> Either Samba is severely broken, or this machine has a hardware problem. It
> runs about 500 users on a 2GB Fujitsu X86 with Linux 2.4.18

This is a really good reason to dump core when malloc fails rather than 
logging a debug and then continuing on our merry way.


Tim.




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