[Samba] release_posix_lock: unable to find entry to delete with Samba3.0.23b on Redhat ES4

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Tue Aug 29 20:47:52 GMT 2006


On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 09:41:15PM +0100, Andrew Wilson wrote:
> Jeremy,
> 
> I have located the source of this error in our config' - we had "posix 
> locking=no" in force on the share we are using to host the NT/XP 
> profiles (See the definition below). When we remove this (to allow the 
> default posix locking) the errors go away - they were occuring during 
> log on and log off from Windows XP clients. I probably should have 
> spotted this one - so sorry about that. However I do remember having to 
> put this setting in place with a much older version of Samba, running 
> under Solaris, in order to get the profiles to work reliably. In any 
> case I am not sure whether you think this setting should be causing a 
> panic in smbd under these circumstances ?

No it shouldn't - it's a bug. But I think it's something I've
fixed in current SAMBA_3_0 svn. I'll look at the SAMBA_3_0_23
svn (still using the older locking code, about to be shipped
as 3.0.23c).

Thanks for the info !

Jeremy.


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