winbindd problems after upgrading to 3.0.25c

[Jeremy Allison]

eje4 at cornell.edu  wrote :

> I just recently upgraded from Samba 3.0.22 to 3.0.25c, and as I soon as I
> upgraded and restarted Samba I immediately started getting huge amounts
> of these error messages in my Samba log:
>
> "nsswitch/winbindd.c: request_len_rec(554)
> request_len_recv: Invalid request size received"
>
> A google search reveals that many other Samba users have had similar errors,
> but unfortunately I have not been able to find any mention of a fix for this
> problem.  Has anyone here seen this error before?  What can be done about it?

Firstly can you check that the nsswitch library has been
correctly replaced. If you're sure it has then this patch
might be of interest.

http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-cvs/2007-August/079269.html

Jeremy.