[Samba] Attempting to expunge tombstones with samba-tool

[lingpanda101]

On 10/26/2016 12:11 PM, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> 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
>

I get

time.time = time(...)
     time() -> floating point number

     Return the current time in seconds since the Epoch.
     Fractions of a second may be present if the system clock provides them.


I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 on these DC's.  Python version 2.7.3. Thanks.


-- 
- James