[Samba] Samba segment faulting - unknown cause

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Wed Oct 12 17:59:06 GMT 2005


On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 04:28:47PM +1300, Mike Hodgkinson wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Recently our Samba server has started segment faulting. It happens 
> occasionally, but is often enough to cause disruption. People notice thier 
> network drives freeze, I am unsure of the cause of the segment fault, and 
> have no experience debugging backtraces.
> Can anoyone lend a hand?
> 
> We are running Samba as a primary domain controller with an Openldap 
> backend on another server, both on debian linux sarge stable.
> Versions:
> Samba server
> ii  samba          3.0.14a-3     
> ii  samba-common   3.0.14a-3    
> ii  smbclient      3.0.14a-3      
> ii  smbfs          3.0.14a-3      
> ii  smbldap-tools  0.8.7-4        
> ii  libpam-ldap    178-1 
> ii  libnss-ldap    238-1          
> ii  libc6          2.3.2.ds1-22
> Openldap server
> ii  ldap-utils     2.2.23-8       OpenLDAP utilities
> ii  libldap-2.2-7  2.2.23-8       OpenLDAP libraries
> ii  libldap2       2.1.30-8       OpenLDAP libraries
> rc  libnss-ldap    238-1          NSS module for using LDAP as a naming 
> servic
> rc  libpam-ldap    178-1          Pluggable Authentication Module allowing 
> LDA
> ii  libc6          2.3.2.ds1-22   
> ii  libc6-sparc64  2.3.2.ds1-22 

Looks like a bug in the OpenLDAP libraries to me - it's dying
inside the OpenLDAP SASL code.

Jeremy.


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