[Samba] Re: Samba-3.0.4 - PANIC: Could not generate a machine SID

[Jim C.]

What passdb backend will you be useing?

> Searching the archives for a solution to this problem revealed no solution.
> 
> Recently I built Samba-3.0.4 from downloaded source on a computer running
> Solaris 8.  I wish to have this computer join a Windows NT 4.0 domain (as
> only a member.)  I have another computer currently running Samba-2.0.7 as
> a member in this domain. (The goal is to have Samba-3.0.4 replace
> Samba-2.0.7.)  After a successful build, I copied the Samba-2.0.7 smb.conf
> to Samba-3.0.4 and changed the necessary identification statements. (testparm
> runs clean.)  If needed, I will post smb.conf.
> 
> Key smb.conf statements:
> security = domain
> encrypt passwords = yes
> password server = xyzzy
> 
> Samba is started via (complete path not shown):
> .../nmbd -D
> .../smbd -D
> 
> # ls -ald /usr/local/samba/private
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root     other       4096 Jul 12 17:23 /usr/local/samba/private
> # ls -l /usr/local/samba/private/secrets.tdb
> -rw-------   1 root     root        8192 Jul 13 13:32 
> /usr/local/samba/private/secrets.tdb
> 
> smbd repeatedly fails producing the following messages in the log:
> [2004/07/13 12:50:24, 0] tdb/tdbutil.c:tdb_log(725)
>   tdb(/SOURCES/samba-3.0.4/private/secrets.tdb): tdb_lock failed on list 30 
> ltype=1 (Resource temporarily unavailable)
> [2004/07/13 12:50:24, 0] tdb/tdbutil.c:tdb_log(725)
>   tdb(/SOURCES/samba-3.0.4/private/secrets.tdb): tdb_lock failed on list 30 
> ltype=2 (Resource temporarily unavailable)
> [2004/07/13 12:50:24, 0] passdb/machine_sid.c:pdb_generate_sam_sid(176)
>   pdb_generate_sam_sid: Failed to store generated machine SID.
> [2004/07/13 12:50:24, 0] lib/util.c:smb_panic2(1398)
>   PANIC: Could not generate a machine SID
>   
> [2004/07/13 12:50:24, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(36)
>   ===============================================================
> [2004/07/13 12:50:24, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(37)
>   INTERNAL ERROR: Signal 6 in pid 24581 (3.0.4)
>   Please read the appendix Bugs of the Samba HOWTO collection
> [2004/07/13 12:50:24, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(39)
>   ===============================================================
> [2004/07/13 12:50:24, 0] lib/util.c:smb_panic2(1398)
>   PANIC: internal error
>   
> 
> Thanks, in advance, for any help that you may offer.
> 
> Mike Box
> 


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