[Samba] "Unable to fetch value for secret ..., are we an undetected RODC?"

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Mon, 2016-09-19 at 16:25 +0100, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Sep 2016 10:50:25 -0400
> Adam Tauno Williams via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2016-09-19 at 10:45 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams via samba
> > wrote:
> > > Since upgrading S4 DCs I am see the following message in
> > > log.samba -
> > > The message "Unable to fetch value for secret BCKUPKEY_13bb48fc
> > > -0844
> > > -4736-9972-e26453333856, are we an undetected RODC?" repeats
> > > frequently.Found <
> > > https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11416> ... so I
> > assume this fix is not in the SERNET packages and I need to upgrade 
> > to 4.3 to make it go away.
> > It never made it to 4.2.x because that branch was in 'security 
> > fixes only' mode. 

Right.  SERNET's 4.2.x goes beyond Samba's "x"; so I wondered if they
had backed in patches.  Anyway...

> > If you do upgrade to 4.3.x, you would be upgrading to
> the same mode again, now that 4.5.0 has come out. Unfortunately there
> seems to be a slight problem with 4.5.0, so I would suggest upgrading
> to the latest 4.4.x version.

Thank you for the advice.  It is generally OK to jump ahead; as 4.2.x -
->> 4.4.x ?  I have never skipped an entire minor before.  The Samba4
Upgrade page does not mention any policy either way.

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Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awilliam at whitemice.org> GPG D95ED383
Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA