[Samba] Samba 3.0.3pre1 - Linux 2.6.4 Freeze

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Jerry Haltom wrote:

| I had a smbd process which locked up, totally frozen.
| Would not even respond to SIGTERM. Had to SIGKILL it. It
| was preventing users from accessing a file (it had a lock on
| the file). The process seems to have been stuck in the ldapsam
| code, and might be a fault of libldap, but I don't know enough
| about it to make that assumption. The problem started because
| our LDAP server was restarted.
|
| I got a full backtrace from the frozen smbd process, and
| it is attached.
|
| The only way to fix the lock was to kill -9 the frozen process and
| restart all of Samba.
|
| #0  0x4017a7ee in select () from /lib/libc.so.6
| No symbol table info available.
| #1  0x40047854 in ldap_int_hostname () from /usr/lib/libldap.so.2
| No symbol table info available.

Looks like its in the openldap client libs, not samba.  I
grepped for ldap_int_hostname in openldap 2.2.11 and 2.1.30.
Only came up with a global variable.  So I'm not sure what
version of openldap you are using, but you might want to
start you search there.





cheers, jerry
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