Errors in my log.samba

Jeff Sadowski jeff.sadowski at gmail.com
Tue Oct 18 08:52:52 MDT 2011


On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 16:15 -0600, Jeff Sadowski wrote:
>> I get a lot of errors similar to as follows in my /usr/local/samba/var/log.samba
>>
>>   convert_string_talloc: Conversion error: Illegal multibyte sequence(PØ\D)
>>   Conversion error: Illegal multibyte sequence(PØ\D)
>>   convert_string_talloc: Conversion error: Illegal multibyte sequence(PØ\D)
>>   Conversion error: Illegal multibyte sequence(PØ\D)
>>   convert_string_talloc: Conversion error: Illegal multibyte sequence(PØ\D)
>>   Conversion error: Illegal multibyte sequence(PØ\D)
>>   ndr_pull_error(11): Pull bytes 8 (../librpc/ndr/ndr_basic.c:231)
>>   convert_string_talloc: Conversion error: Illegal multibyte sequence(¸ÛÑA~)
>>   Conversion error: Illegal multibyte sequence(¸ÛÑA~)
>>   convert_string_talloc: Conversion error: Illegal multibyte sequence(¸ÛÑA~)
>>   Conversion error: Illegal multibyte sequence(¸ÛÑA~)
>>
>> Is there something I need to set to use utf8 someplace? Is that the issue?
>
> Did you compile on a host with the iconv development headers?
>
Thank you Andrew.

I will install iconv and headers
Im installing the following packages "libiconv-hook-dev libiconv-hook1
libruby libruby1.8"
those are all the packages that show when I try
aptitude install libiconv using debian 6.0 so I'm guessing they are what I need.

> These headers and libiconv is now required for operation in the presence
> of multi-byte chars. (I'll see about making it a mandatory library, with
> an override to enable limited operation on hosts without this).
>
> Andrew Bartlett
>
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