[Samba] What circumstances migth favour frequently locked files

[Vladuta Cristian]

Gentlemen, I am running a RH9 - Samba PDC ( 3.0.1pre3) in a mixed
W9X/XP/NT production environment and encountered a problem related to
locked files. By tracing down the event I suspect it might have happened
when a certain user tried to copy a large number of files from an NT
server on to the Samba server.  The process resulted in a list of locked
files that remained there until a smb restart. Below is my event log
related to that. 

However I discovered other files staying locked as well , not in
relation with big transfers . 

 

Can you please tell me what circumstances might favour such unwanted
locking situations? And what are the odds for file corruption in such
cases? 

 

And final question:  What is the safest upgrade method from a
preliminary version - rpm package - ( 3.0.1pre3, my case) to the latest
stable one?  Simply removing the rpms and installing the new ones by
preserving the conf and smbpasswd file?

 

Thank you,

 

Cristian

 

 

 

 

 

2004/03/11 17:05:50, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(36)

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[2004/03/11 17:05:50, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(37)

  INTERNAL ERROR: Signal 11 in pid 4046 (3.0.1pre3)

  Please read the appendix Bugs of the Samba HOWTO collection

[2004/03/11 17:05:50, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(39)

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[2004/03/11 17:05:50, 0] lib/util.c:smb_panic(1400)

  PANIC: internal error

[2004/03/11 17:05:50, 0] lib/util.c:smb_panic(1408)

  BACKTRACE: 14 stack frames:

   #0 smbd(smb_panic+0x11c) [0x81bc81c]

   #1 smbd [0x81ab1f2]

   #2 /lib/tls/libc.so.6 [0x420275c8]

   #3 smbd(alloc_sub_basic+0x22) [0x81c2cb2]

   #4 smbd(strftime+0x19a1) [0x80776ed]

   #5 smbd(make_connection+0x4ca) [0x80cb4aa]

   #6 smbd(reply_tcon_and_X+0x1af) [0x809bd8f]

   #7 smbd [0x80c7c56]

   #8 smbd [0x80c7e29]

   #9 smbd(process_smb+0x8f) [0x80c803f]

   #10 smbd(smbd_process+0x167) [0x80c8c77]

   #11 smbd(main+0x4bf) [0x8227c0f]

   #12 /lib/tls/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe4) [0x42015574]

   #13 smbd(chroot+0x35) [0x8076b91]