[Samba] After updating

[Rowland Penny]

On Sun, 16 Sep 2018 17:39:28 +0000
Sandy via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Hello list, today I updated my samba domain to version 4.9, after
> everything went well, I ran the command ./samba-tool dbcheck and the
> error is the following, however everything else works perfect ...
> that could be happening???? ./samba-tool dbcheck Checking 903 objects
> ERROR(): uncaught exception - 'ascii' codec can't encode character
> u'xe1' in position 313: ordinal not in range(128) File
> "/usr/local/samba/lib/python2.7/site-packages/samba/netcmd/__init__.py",
> line 177, in _run return self.run(*args, **kwargs) File
> "/usr/local/samba/lib/python2.7/site-packages/samba/netcmd/dbcheck.py",
> line 157, in run controls=controls, attrs=attrs) File
> "/usr/local/samba/lib/python2.7/site-packages/samba/dbchecker.py",
> line 221, in check_database error_count +=
> self.check_object(object.dn, attrs=attrs) File
> "/usr/local/samba/lib/python2.7/site-packages/samba/dbchecker.py",
> line 2230, in check_object error_count += self.check_dn(obj,
> attrname, syntax_oid) File
> "/usr/local/samba/lib/python2.7/site-packages/samba/dbchecker.py",
> line 1139, in check_dn self.check_duplicate_links(obj, attrname,
> syntax_oid, linkID, reverse_link_name) File
> "/usr/local/samba/lib/python2.7/site-packages/samba/dbchecker.py",
> line 947, in check_duplicate_links dsdb_dn = dsdb_Dn(self.samdb,
> val.decode('utf8'), forward_syntax) File
> "/usr/local/samba/lib/python2.7/site-packages/samba/common.py", line
> 101, in __init__ self.dn = ldb.Dn(samdb, self.dnstring)

This is a known bug, see here:

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13616

Rowland