[Samba] samba PANIC

[Michael Wood]

On 30 November 2011 14:21, Volker Lendecke <Volker.Lendecke at sernet.de> wrote:
> 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:
[...]
>> > 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.

I'm sure you would :)

This is not a problem that is happening to me (I am not skull), and I
of course do not have any proof that this is a software bug, let alone
a patch.  I just found it strange that a hardware problem would cause
"BBBB" to be found where some sort of TDB magic value was expected.
You, of course, have infinitely more experience with this sort of
thing than I have.  I just thought I'd ask.

> With best regards,

Same here.

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Michael Wood <esiotrot at gmail.com>