[Samba] Failures after update Samba 4.6.2

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Sat, 2017-04-08 at 20:35 +0100, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> On Sun, 09 Apr 2017 07:23:27 +1200
> Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 2017-04-08 at 16:13 +0000, Ricardo Pardim Claus via samba
> > wrote:
> > > Dear Rowland
> > > 
> > > When I execute the command, I get the following error:
> > > 
> > > # samba-tool domain tombstones expunge
> > > ERROR(<type 'exceptions.AttributeError'>): uncaught exception -
> > > 'module' object has no attribute 'time'
> > >   File "/usr/local/samba/lib64/python2.7/site-
> > > packages/samba/netcmd/__init__.py", line 176, in _run
> > >     return self.run(*args, **kwargs)
> > >   File "/usr/local/samba/lib64/python2.7/site-
> > > packages/samba/netcmd/domain.py", line 3790, in run
> > >     current_time = long(time.time())
> > 
> > In this case you have an old time.pyc or time.py file in your
> > install. Clean our the old binaries and python files from your
> > install and re- run make install.
> 
> Thanks for confirm what I already told the OP ;-)

Sorry about that, I missed your e-mail :-)

> > 
> > It won't help however, as the links you show are both not deleted
> > and
> > point to an object that doesn't exist.  We now find these (we
> > didn't
> > in 4.4) but we don't propose a solution, as it isn't clear (enough)
> > what to do with them!
> 
> I thought this was fixed, but if it isn't, I suggest we stop finding
> them again until we can fix them. We are just worrying people.

We fixed a number of cases like it.  I'll think more about this case.  

It seems reasonable to again ignore one-way links to objects that have
now been deleted because such links are not removed by Samba when the
object goes away.

Thanks,

Andrew Bartlett

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