[Samba] Invalid request size nsswitch/winbindd

Volker Lendecke Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE
Wed Dec 19 13:56:50 GMT 2007


On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 02:24:37PM +0100, Gianluca Culot wrote:
> Hello list
>  
> I've seen there is a discussion about this error 
>  
> Dec 19 10:30:00 antares winbindd[90393]: [2007/12/19 10:30:00, 0]
> nsswitch/winbindd.c:request_len_recv(544)
> Dec 19 10:30:00 antares winbindd[90393]:   request_len_recv: Invalid request
> size received: 2084 (expected 2088)
> 
> but the suggested remedy of sttoping and starting samba granting all
> winbindd processes died doesn't work for me
>  
> I'm running e freebsd 6 box with
> samba-3.0.28,1
>  
> I ALWAYS portupgraded, never built custom packages or from sources.
>  
> a completely similar box (portupgraded in the same way and running the SAME
> samba version) doesn't report this error
> both samba are attached and referring to the same domain.
>  
> actually this error doesn't seem to bring any problem to the user and server
> operations...
> but it is reported VERY frequently !
>  
> any suggestion ?

Reboot your box. It's not only smbd, all processes in the
system potentially can trigger this error.

Volker
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