tdb_chainlock_with_timeout_internal error

[Eddie Chen]

Has anyone seen this error before?

Jun 26 11:00:55 bb02f79 smbd[4788]: [2007/06/26 11:00:55, 0] lib/util_tdb.c:tdb_chainlock_with_timeout_internal(84) 
Jun 26 11:00:55 bb02f79 smbd[4788]:   tdb_chainlock_with_timeout_internal: alarm (10) timed out for key NADC20 in tdb /etc/samba/secrets.tdb

Whenever this happens, the number of smbd processes increased exponentially, and given a few hours, it reached around 17000 smbd processes, and caused the system to hang.

Someone please help.

Eddie