[Samba] migrating NT-style domain SID-error

[Rowland Penny]

On Tue, 15 May 2018 08:07:27 +0200
Stefan Kania <stefan at kania-online.de> wrote:

> Good morning,
> 
> today we started allover with a new machine, we got the same errors
> but now we have an errormessage when doing a "samba-tool dbcheck"
> ---------------
> root at addc:~# samba-tool dbcheck
> Checking 664 objects
> ERROR(runtime): uncaught exception - (31, 'WERR_GENERAL_FAILURE')
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/samba/netcmd/__init__.py",
> line 176, in _run
>     return self.run(*args, **kwargs)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/samba/netcmd/dbcheck.py",
> line 157, in run
>     controls=controls, attrs=attrs)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/samba/dbchecker.py", line
> 198, in check_database
>     error_count += self.check_object(object.dn, attrs=attrs)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/samba/dbchecker.py", line
> 1803, in check_object
>     normalised =
> self.samdb.dsdb_normalise_attributes(self.samdb_schema, attrname,
> [val]) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/samba/samdb.py", line
> 677, in dsdb_normalise_attributes
>     return dsdb._dsdb_normalise_attributes(ldb, ldap_display_name,
> ldif_elements)
> 

It looks like it is falling over whilst trying to 'normalise' an entry
in AD, could this be a 'locale' problem ??

Rowland