[Samba] FW: Questions about Samba 4

[Jeremy Allison]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 09:46:48PM +0100, Rowland Penny wrote:
> >... stuff I'm interested in...
> >
> >Then paste the "... stuff I'm interested in..."
> >output into the bug report.
> >
> >I'm assuming winbindd has been built with -g (DEBUG)
> >turned on.
> 
> OK, does '(no debugging symbols found)' mean what I think it means ?
> i.e. winbindd wasn't built with -g

Yep :-(.

> ... stuff I'm interested in... is just:
> 
>  (gdb) bt
> #0  0x00007f8d0cf0b12f in ?? ()
> #1  0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
> (gdb)

Yeah, that doesn't help :-).

> If this is what you are looking for I will add it to the bug report
> 11038, if not, I will have to download the src deb for winbindd and
> rebuild it with -g , but this will have to wait until tomorrow.

OK, no problem. Rebuilding with -g is what is needed here.

The other thing that helps is to attach to the process
using strace,


# strace -p WINBINDD_SPINNING_PID

- which should give a looping amount of system call
output which would also be helpful.