[Samba] samba-tool dbcheck on 4.7.5, after bug 13228

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Fri Feb 16 17:56:34 UTC 2018


On Fri, 2018-02-16 at 11:44 +0000, Jonathan Hunter via samba wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Replying to my own query, for those following along at home (or reading the
> archives in the future). Thanks very much to Garming for giving me these
> pointers.
> 
> My initial query probably wasn't very clear - apologies - but what it
> boiled down to was that "samba-tool dbcheck --cross-ncs" identified a
> number of errors, but these were *NOT* fixed when I ran the same command
> with "--yes".
> 
> The answer was that I needed to run dbcheck *without* the "--yes" argument,
> and instead manually specify y / all during the check itself. *These have
> slightly different behaviours*, particularly if there is an error in the
> middle which might be happening.
> 
> This successfully fixed the errors I had in my DB (actually, I still had
> some group membership issues with some newer users I had added to Domain
> Users / Domain Guests) but the bulk of the problems are now gone. I did
> also run the dbcheck on each DC individually; each had a slightly different
> set of errors, but most of my DCs are now reporting no errors via dbcheck,
> which is good :-)
> 
> I'm therefore not sure if the "samba-tool dbcheck --help" wording for
> "--yes" should be updated.
> Currently the help text for --yes is:
>   "don't confirm changes, just do them all as a single transaction".
> 
> Should it say something like:
>   "don't confirm changes individually, do them all as a single transaction,
> this has different behaviour to answering yes each time, and may fail in
> case of some errors"
> ?

It is more like "don't confirm changes, require all changes to apply
successfully (use a single transaction)". 

Ideally all errors have a fix and the fix applies successfully but in
the real world it seems this isn't the case.

Andrew Bartlett
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