PANIC: failed to create UCS2 buffer

[TAKAHASHI Motonobu]

Jeff Chua wrote:

|I've got this error in log.nmbd
|
|Samba version is Version 3.0.0beta1
|
|[2003/06/27 09:49:17, 0] lib/iconv.c:utf8_pull(471)
|  short utf8 char
|[2003/06/27 09:49:17, 0] lib/charcnv.c:convert_string_allocate(248)
|  Conversion error: Incomplete multibyte sequence()
|[2003/06/27 09:49:17, 0] lib/util.c:smb_panic(1462)
|  PANIC: failed to create UCS2 buffer
|[2003/06/27 09:49:17, 0] lib/util.c:smb_panic(1469)
|  BACKTRACE: 12 stack frames:
|   #0 nmbd(smb_panic+0x168) [0x80aee14]
|   #1 nmbd(unix_strupper+0x38) [0x809d3c8]
|   #2 nmbd(strupper_m+0xcf) [0x80a8d83]
|   #3 nmbd [0x8063d09]
|   #4 nmbd(find_name_on_subnet+0x1c) [0x8063eb0]
|   #5 nmbd(wins_process_name_refresh_request+0x12c) [0x806e070]
|   #6 nmbd [0x8068f72]
|   #7 nmbd(run_packet_queue+0x56) [0x806919a]
|   #8 nmbd(strftime+0x15c2) [0x805cffa]
|   #9 nmbd(main+0x5f9) [0x805d851]
|   #10 /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xc0) [0x40093b7c]
|   #11 nmbd(yp_get_default_domain+0x59) [0x805c191]

I met (probably) the same problem.

As far as I checked, this problem occurs when you use characters which
are not supported in unix charset in login names or computer names,
because nmbd stores received names 'as is' and tries to strupper them
assuming they were unix charset string.

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