Problems with ACL's?

Charles Tryon charles.tryon at gmail.com
Tue Feb 19 11:15:17 MST 2013


Update:

Still investigating, but it SEEMS like I have solved this by removing my
ENTIRE old /usr/local/samba directory and starting over from scratch.....

Will write more when I've done some more tests...




On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Charles Tryon <charles.tryon at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> I've been away from this list for a while so it's altogether possible that
> I've missed something in the discussions here, but running into a problem
> with ACL support that I haven't been able to sort out.
>
> I'm building on two different bases: One is a FC16 based server which was
> running very well as a Samba4 server right up through the 4.0.0 release.
>  The other is a CentOS 6.3 server installed as a "minimal server"
> configuration, which means it's missing a LOT of the extra packages that
> you'd usually see on a vanilla system.  I was thinking that the problem was
> some missing development library, but I have since found that BOTH systems
> are exhibiting the same error.
>
> I have gone through the HOWTO again to make sure I haven't missed any
> setup steps.  In particular, I've run through the OS requirements page for
> required RPM packages, and the xattr test steps.  I'm made sure that my
> /etc/fstab lines for the various ext4 physical file systems have the
> "user_xattr,acl,barrier=1" attributes.  The setgattr and getfattr tests
> return exactly the results that are shown in the Wiki page.
>
> touch test.txt
> setfattr -n user.test -v test test.txt
> setfattr -n security.test -v test2 test.txt
> getfattr -d test.txt
> getfattr -n security.test -d test.txt
>
> touch test3.txt
> setfacl -m g:adm:rwx test3.txt
> getfacl test3.txt
>
> HOWEVER, on both the system which was running fine before, and on the new
> system, I get the exactly the same response when I try to run the
> provisioning step:
>
> ldb: module schema_load initialization failed : No such object
> ldb: module rootdse initialization failed : No such object
> ldb: module samba_dsdb initialization failed : No such object
> ldb: Unable to load modules for /usr/local/samba/private/sam.ldb: (null)
> samdb_connect failed
> VFS connect failed!
> ERROR(<class 'samba.provision.ProvisioningError'>): Provision failed -
> ProvisioningError: Your filesystem or build does not support posix ACLs,
> which s3fs requires.  Try the mounting the filesystem with the 'acl' option.
>   File
> "/usr/local/samba/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/samba/netcmd/domain.py",
> line 398, in run
>     use_rfc2307=use_rfc2307, skip_sysvolacl=False)
>   File
> "/usr/local/samba/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/samba/provision/__init__.py",
> line 2052, in provision
>     raise ProvisioningError("Your filesystem or build does not support
> posix ACLs, which s3fs requires.  Try the mounting the filesystem with the
> 'acl' option.")
>
> ? uname -a
> Linux samba.bbaggins.net 3.6.11-4.fc16.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jan 8 20:57:42
> UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> Any ideas where I should be looking?
>
>
> --
>     Charles Tryon
> _________________________________________________________________________
>   “Risks are not to be evaluated in terms of the probability of success,
> but in terms of the value of the goal.”
>                 - Ralph D. Winter
>



-- 
    Charles Tryon
_________________________________________________________________________
  “Risks are not to be evaluated in terms of the probability of success,
but in terms of the value of the goal.”
                - Ralph D. Winter


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