tdb failing and too many connections

[Daxbert]

I've run into a problem with samba and tdb reporting "too many connections"

If I do a typical configure:

./configure  --prefix=/usr/local/samba \
--localstatedir=/var/samba \
--with-lockdir=/var/samba/locks \
--with-configdir=/usr/local/samba/etc

I see errors like the following in /var/samba/log.smbd:

[2001/11/10 22:58:53, 0] tdb/tdbutil.c:tdb_log(342)
  tdb(/var/samba/locks/connections.tdb): expand_file write of 1024 failed
(Undefined error: 0)
...
[2001/11/10 22:58:53, 0] smbd/connection.c:claim_connection(188)
  claim_connection: tdb_store failed with error IO Error.
...
[2001/11/10 22:59:02, 0] tdb/tdbutil.c:tdb_log(342)
  tdb(/var/samba/locks/connections.tdb): tdb_read failed at 168 len=4
(Undefined error: 0)
[2001/11/10 22:59:02, 0] smbd/connection.c:claim_connection(188)
  claim_connection: tdb_store failed with error IO Error.
[2001/11/10 22:59:02, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection(503)
  too many connections - rejected

This results in all attempted connections being rejected.  I decided to take
a look at tdb and did the following:

#cd /usr/local/src/samba/source/tdb
#make clean
#make
    (fails... since tdbtest needs lgdbm...)
I install gdbm-1.8.0 and add the following line to tdb's Makefile

CFLAGS += -L/usr/local/lib -I/usr/local/include

    (so I try again)

#cd /usr/local/src/samba/source/tdb
#make clean
#make
    (succeeds, and tdbtest runs fine)
#cd /usr/local/src/samba/source
#make
    (tdbutil.o is built)
    (forces a relink of the binaries)
#make installbin

Now Samba runs fine.

So I do the following::

#cd /usr/local/src/samba/source/tdb
#make clean
#cd /usr/local/src/samba
#make
#make installbin

Samba once again fails with "too many connections"

The only difference is that I didn't build tdb by itself first.

I'm running samba-2.2.3-pre which I checked out on Novemeber 10, 2000 18:39.
since the -d 10 output is quite verbose, I stuck everything at:
http://anubis.dweebsoft.com/samba/

Is anybody else having this problem?