[Samba] convert_string_talloc: Conversion error: Incomplete multibyte sequence

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Mon Jun 20 09:07:19 MDT 2011


My users are having a lot of problems since I upgraded a samba domain
member server from samba-3.0.37 to 3.5.X. The main issue seems to be a
very long delay loading office files (sometimes minutes if the file
loads at all) and a lot of read only errors and users not being able
to save. I have found that rebooting the client, restarting samba, or
killing the users smbd process regains access to the file that the
user wanted. In the logs I see a lot of the following errors:

[2011/06/20 10:50:14.147340,  3] lib/charcnv.c:645(convert_string_talloc)
  convert_string_talloc: Conversion error: Incomplete multibyte sequence(<FB>^?)
[2011/06/20 10:50:14.147507,  3] lib/charcnv.c:645(convert_string_talloc)
  convert_string_talloc: Conversion error: Incomplete multibyte sequence(<FB>^?)


Are these really errors or should I ignore this?

Thanks,
John M. Drescher


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