REPOST: Meaning of "tdb_free: left read failed at ...?"

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote:

> since I upgraded our fileserver running Debian 3.0/i386 with Samba 2.2.7a (a 
> package I created myself) I'm seeing the following messages in syslog:
> 
> Jan 28 14:55:50 Fileserver nmbd[22451]: [2003/01/28 14:55:50, 0] 
> tdb/tdbutil.c:tdb_log(531) 
> Jan 28 14:55:50 Fileserver nmbd[22451]:   tdb(/var/run/samba/unexpected.tdb): 
> tdb_oob len -2320 beyond eof at 16384 
> Jan 28 14:55:50 Fileserver nmbd[22451]: [2003/01/28 14:55:50, 0] 
> tdb/tdbutil.c:tdb_log(531) 
> Jan 28 14:55:50 Fileserver nmbd[22451]:   tdb(/var/run/samba/unexpected.tdb): 
> tdb_free: left read failed at 4294964952 (4096) 


Looks like the tdb went over the 4Gb line.  As a quick work around,
Stop nmbd; rm /var/run/samba/unexpected.tdb; and start nmbd back up.

It looks like an overflow in the tdb read offset.  I don't think tdb's 
support 64-bit file size (of the actual tdb itself) IIRC.  This is by 
design I believe.





cheers, jerry
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