Failing tests on Fedora

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Thu, 2023-02-16 at 09:04 +0100, Andreas Schneider via samba-
technical wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm currently trying to run 'make test' as part of the RPM build process 
> (%check). So I'm trying to get everything working, but I'm seeing strange
> issues and I need some help to track them down.

> We create a test user with `samba-tool user add`, which succeeds! Note that 
> samba-tool directly operates on the database here!
> 
> Next we try to do an operation via ldap:// and if you look at the error above 
> it tells us the user we sucessfully createa a few moments agao doesn't exist. 
> 
> It looks like the samba process didn't recognize that that the database was 
> modified.
> 
> I also see something like that with Kerberos tests, we create a user with 
> `samba-tool add user` and then the KDC can't find it in the database => same 
> pattern.
> 
> I don't have deep knowledge of the AD server, so hints how to track this down 
> are much appreciated.

This is very, very strange.  Particularly if it works for a single test
but not a suite of tests.  The KDC is just another tool reading that
same sam.ldb, there isn't any extra cache or anything involved.

Andrew Bartlett
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