[Samba] Debugging tdb_oob log messages in samba 3.6

[Amitay Isaacs]

Hi John,

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 11:59 PM, John Mulligan
<phlogistonjohn at asynchrono.us> wrote:
> Hello samba list,
>
> We're trialling Samba 3.6 and on some of our systems I see the following type
> of messages in the smbd and winbind logs:
>
> [2012/03/16 17:28:59.038177,  0] ../lib/util/tdb_wrap.c:65(tdb_wrap_log)
>  tdb(/var/lib/samba/messages.tdb): tdb_oob len 663932 beyond eof at 12288
> [2012/03/16 17:28:59.038331,  0] ../lib/util/tdb_wrap.c:65(tdb_wrap_log)
>  tdb(/var/lib/samba/messages.tdb): tdb_oob len 663932 beyond eof at 12288
> [2012/03/16 17:28:59.038408,  0] ../lib/util/tdb_wrap.c:65(tdb_wrap_log)
>  tdb(/var/lib/samba/messages.tdb): tdb_oob len 663932 beyond eof at 12288
>
> These messages also appear to coincide with a very long time to open up the
> properties panel of a file or directory on the Windows clients (a mix of Win7
> and Server 2008). I poked around with increased logging levels and did some
> googling but nothing really relevent seems to pop up.
>
> This feels like a bug to me, but I don't feel like I have enough information
> to report it as such. I'd like to know what to do in order to provide you all
> with more detailed information about this issue. I'm happy to try and provide
> more information, I'm just not sure what is relevant at this point.
>
> Our systems are running Fedora 14 with Samba RPMs of the following versions:
>  libtalloc-2.0.7
>  libtdb-1.2.9
>  samba-winbind-clients-3.6.3
>  samba-3.6.3
>  samba-client-3.6.3
>  samba-common-3.6.3
>  samba-winbind-3.6.3
>
> For now we get along with stopping the samba services, and removing
> /var/lib/samba/messages.tdb before restarting them. This clears the issue up
> right away but it "comes back" intermittantly. I have not been able to narrow
> down a cause. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> --John M.

Where did you get these RPMs from? Fedora 14 does not have them. Are
these from Fedora 16?

I would like to check the source for libtdb to pinpoint this issue.

Amitay.