[Samba] Classicupgrade of 4.1.17 error: "list index out of range"

[Denis Cardon]

Hi MI,

> I'm trying to upgrade to AD from a Samba 4 PDC with openLDAP (on Debian 8).
>
> I'm stuck at this very unhelpful error:
>
>     # samba-tool domain classicupgrade --dbdir=/usr/local/samba.PDC/dbdir/
>     --use-xattrs=yes --realm=ad.mydomain.tld --dns-backend=SAMBA_INTERNAL
>     --option="interfaces=lo eth2" --option="bind interfaces only=yes"
>     /etc/samba/smb.conf.PDC
>     Reading smb.conf
>     Provisioning
>     Exporting account policy
>     Exporting groups
>     Exporting users
>        Skipping wellknown rid=501 (for username=nobody)
>     Next rid = 3307
>     ERROR(<type 'exceptions.IndexError'>): uncaught exception - list
> index out of range
>        File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/samba/netcmd/__init__.py",
> line 175, in
>     _run
>          return self.run(*args, **kwargs)
>        File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/samba/netcmd/domain.py",
> line 1321, in run
>          useeadb=eadb, dns_backend=dns_backend, use_ntvfs=use_ntvfs)
>        File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/samba/upgrade.py", line
> 796, in
>     upgrade_from_samba3
>          urls = samba3.lp.get("passdb backend").split(":",1)[1].strip('"')

could you please post the "passdb backend" line of your 
/etc/samba/smb.conf.PDC file? (or even better post the whole file)?

Thanks,

Denis


>
>
> Any ideas on how to fix it or at least find some better clue?
>
>     # samba --version
>     Version 4.1.17-Debian
>
>     # lsb_release -d
>     Description:    Debian GNU/Linux 8.3 (jessie)
>
>
>
> Thanks.
>

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