[Samba] error: tdb_rec_read bad magic

[Ryan Novosielski]

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Sam Liu wrote:
> I am running Samba version 3.0.30 on AIX 5.3 and I got the following output
> when using smbstatus:
> 
> tdb(/var/samba/locks/connections.tdb): tdb_rec_read bad magic 0x25a5b1e4 at
> offset=278920
> 
> tdb(/var/samba/locks/locking.tdb): tdb_rec_read bad magic 0x0 at
> offset=2547712
> locked file list truncated
> 
> I am wondering what causes this and how to fix it. Thanks.

What causes it, I don't know. What normally fixes it is deleting the
affected file. I normally do this with Samba stopped, but I'm not
certain it's necessary. Of course, this only really applies to the
volatile TDB files.

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