4.5.0 upgrade samba-tool dbcheck errors

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Wed Sep 14 22:46:02 UTC 2016


On Wed, 2016-09-14 at 13:25 -0700, yabko wrote:
> i did an upgrade from 4.3.6 to 4.5.0 and samba-tool dbcheck --fix
> fixed a lot
> of entries
> 
> however reruning the check again shows 
> 
> Checked 1175 objects (316 errors)
> 
> they're all old deleted ghost objects
> 
> one example of the 316 entries

Can I please get the full example of the object (search the database
with ldbsearch) as well as the full output here for the DN from
dbcheck:

> 051500000092e87665245894e155a90956f2040000>;CN=Deleted
> User,OU=Users,OU=1985D,OU=DOMAIN,DC=DOMAIN,DC=my
> unable to find object for DN CN=Deleted
> User,OU=Users,OU=1985D,OU=DOMAIN,DC=domain,DC=my - (No such Base DN:
> CN=Deleted User,OU=Users,OU=1985D,OU=DOMAIN,DC=domain,DC=my)
> Not removing dangling forward link
> 
> how can i go about cleaning it up if the dbcheck --fix fails to do
> so?

With the info you have given so far, thankfully these are harmless.  We
didn't realise this warning would come up as much as it has in
production.  However I would prefer to see more detail to be sure.

Thanks,

Andrew Bartlett

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