[Samba] Attempting to expunge tombstones with samba-tool

[Rowland Penny]

On Wed, 26 Oct 2016 11:41:23 -0400
lingpanda101 via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I receive the following when I attempt to expunge deleted tombstone 
> records. I'm attempting to fix several dbcheck 'Not removing dangling 
> forward link' errors.
> 
> samba-tool domain tombstones expunge
> ERROR(<type 'exceptions.AttributeError'>): uncaught exception -
> 'module' object has no attribute 'time'
>    File 
> "/usr/local/samba/lib/python2.7/site-packages/samba/netcmd/__init__.py", 
> line 176, in _run
>      return self.run(*args, **kwargs)
>    File 
> "/usr/local/samba/lib/python2.7/site-packages/samba/netcmd/domain.py", 
> line 3791, in run
>      current_time = long(time.time())
> 
> I recently updated from 4.5.0 to 4.5.1. Do I need to reanimate
> deleted objects before I can expunge them? Thanks.
> 
> 

That isn't your problem, if you look closely, you seem to have a problem
with your version of 'time'. If you look at the top of 'domain.py',
there is this line:

import time

This tells python to use the 'time' module, this module should have the
attribute 'time', you can check this with 'pydoc time.time' run in
a terminal, this should produce info about 'time.time'.

Rowland