[Samba] fruit_get_bandsize didn't find band-size key

[Rowland Penny]

On Wed, 19 Nov 2025 11:57:50 +0100
Mark Ruys <mark at paracas.nl> wrote:

> Hm, strange, the regex does match:
> 
> root at blue:/mnt/user/tm-mark/Yavin4.sparsebundle# grep -A1
> "^[[:blank:]]*<key>band-size</key>$" Info.plist <key>band-size</key>
> 	<integer>204800000</integer>
> 
> I notice the timestamp of the Info.plist is from today :
> 
> root at alderaan:/mnt/user/tm-mark/Yavin4.sparsebundle# ls -al Info*
> -rwxrw-rw- 1 markr users 575 Nov 19 07:02 Info.bckup*
> -rwxrw-rw- 1 markr users 575 Nov 19 07:02 Info.plist*
> 
> Perhaps this file gets rewritten at the same time as
> fruit_get_bandsize() checks it. Like some rat race condition? That
> would explain I only a few times a day (Time Machine backups run each
> hour).

What you say may be correct, but all I can say is that before you get
the log messages, Samba parses the 'Info.plist' file and cannot the
regex, perhaps MacOS, for whatever reason, isn't writing it. Samba has
no control over that.

> 
> Could this be related:
> 
> root at blue:/var/log/samba# tail -n6 log.rpcd_mdssvc
> [2025/11/19 04:47:34.033208,  0]
> ../../source3/rpc_server/rpc_worker.c:1148(rpc_worker_main)
> rpcd_mdssvc version 4.23.2 started. Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the
> Samba Team 1992-2025 [2025/11/19 07:01:44.113290,  0]
> ../../source3/rpc_server/rpc_worker.c:1148(rpc_worker_main)
> rpcd_mdssvc version 4.23.2 started. Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the
> Samba Team 1992-2025
> 

I wouldn't have thought so, it just shows one of the 'on-demand' helper
binaries starting.

Rowland