[Samba] samba PANIC

[Volker Lendecke]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 01:49:28PM +0200, Michael Wood wrote:
> On 30 November 2011 11:38, Volker Lendecke <Volker.Lendecke at sernet.de> wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 09:55:55AM +0100, skull wrote:
> >> no problem. (why didn't i think of this myself? :-) )
> >>
> >> heres /var/log/messages:
> >> http://pastebin.com/KcciHs5L
> >>
> >> and heres /var/log/samba/smbd.log
> >> http://pastebin.com/mezTnNm6
> >
> > Nov 30 07:00:24 dc smbd[16828]: tdb(/var/lib/samba/locking.tdb): tdb_rec_read bad magic 0x42424242 at offset=3494648
> >
> > In the past these problems have often been caused by bad
> > hardware.
> 
> If it's bad hardware, where does the "BBBB" come from?  Seems sort of
> unlikely (although, of course, not impossible.)
> 
> Does tdb ever set things to 0x42424242 somewhere in order to mark it
> as "freed" or something?  I don't see anything like that from a
> cursory glance at the code, though.

Newly allocated file space will be filled with that pattern.
If you have different proof that we have a software bug and
a patch, I would be more than happy to review it.

With best regards,

Volker Lendecke

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