REPOST: Meaning of "tdb_free: left read failed at ...?"
Gerald (Jerry) Carter
jerry at samba.org
Mon Feb 3 23:20:26 GMT 2003
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On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote:
> since I upgraded our fileserver running Debian 3.0/i386 with Samba 2.2.7a (a
> package I created myself) I'm seeing the following messages in syslog:
>
> Jan 28 14:55:50 Fileserver nmbd[22451]: [2003/01/28 14:55:50, 0]
> tdb/tdbutil.c:tdb_log(531)
> Jan 28 14:55:50 Fileserver nmbd[22451]: tdb(/var/run/samba/unexpected.tdb):
> tdb_oob len -2320 beyond eof at 16384
> Jan 28 14:55:50 Fileserver nmbd[22451]: [2003/01/28 14:55:50, 0]
> tdb/tdbutil.c:tdb_log(531)
> Jan 28 14:55:50 Fileserver nmbd[22451]: tdb(/var/run/samba/unexpected.tdb):
> tdb_free: left read failed at 4294964952 (4096)
Looks like the tdb went over the 4Gb line. As a quick work around,
Stop nmbd; rm /var/run/samba/unexpected.tdb; and start nmbd back up.
It looks like an overflow in the tdb read offset. I don't think tdb's
support 64-bit file size (of the actual tdb itself) IIRC. This is by
design I believe.
cheers, jerry
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