Fun with Samba Panics

Chris Tooley ctooley at amoa.org
Thu Dec 13 23:15:03 GMT 2001


Replying to myself usually means I'm not making very good progress. 
This case is no different.  For the time being I've come up with a
workaround that I'm extremely unproud of.  Instead of using Linux for my
workstation (the only Linux workstation on the network) I've booted into
Windows.  Sure enough all the panics are gone, the sessionid.tdb is
fairly stable.  This won't work long term though as I'm so not used to
Windows that I don't know how long I'll survive with the real Lotus
Notes client.  At any rate, this confirms Andrew Bartlett's assumption
that this is probably a problem in samba's client side code.

The sessionid.tdb problems I was having were with 2.2.1a and the new
panics (which are worse by far) are with the 2.2.2 RPM.  I'll try
getting the 2.2 branch from CVS tomorrow and see if that has any effect
at all.

Chris Tooley

P.S.  abartlett if you get this and haven't had a chance to look into
the problem I was having before yet, please drop me a note, and I'll
spend my lunch hour doing something other than testing CVS for the bug. 
Thanks.
On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 08:51, Chris Tooley wrote:
> Well, after some other pretty horrible issues with sessionid.tdb (which
> I think are fixed by upgrading the version of Samba on the client to
> 2.2.2 as well), I have some other fun.  I am now getting these messages
> (starting the day before yesterday):
> 
> Dec 11 15:29:48 filecabinet smbd[12498]: [2001/12/11 09:29:48, 0]
> lib/fault.c:fault_report(40) 
> Dec 11 15:29:48 filecabinet smbd[12498]:  
> =============================================================== 
> Dec 11 15:29:48 filecabinet smbd[12498]: [2001/12/11 09:29:48, 0]
> lib/fault.c:fault_report(41) 
> Dec 11 15:29:48 filecabinet smbd[12498]:   INTERNAL ERROR: Signal 11 in
> pid 12498 (2.2.2) 
> Dec 11 15:29:48 filecabinet smbd[12498]:   Please read the file BUGS.txt
> in the distribution 
> Dec 11 15:29:48 filecabinet smbd[12498]: [2001/12/11 09:29:48, 0]
> lib/fault.c:fault_report(43) 
> Dec 11 15:29:48 filecabinet smbd[12498]:  
> =============================================================== 
> Dec 11 15:29:48 filecabinet smbd[12498]: [2001/12/11 09:29:48, 0]
> lib/util.c:smb_panic(1055) 
> Dec 11 15:29:48 filecabinet smbd[12498]:   PANIC: internal error 
> Dec 11 15:29:48 filecabinet smbd[12498]:
> 
> They are coming in /var/log/messages and not in the samba logs so I'm
> guessing that these are more severe errors.  Also the network has now
> slowed to a crawl again. Yeah.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help,
> 
> Chris Tooley
> 
> 
> 
> 
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