[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#439882: samba: Panic or segfault in Samba, and (unable to) core dump

[Steve Langasek]

On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 10:17:25AM +0200, Paolo wrote:
> [2007/08/28 09:54:06, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(950)
>   utec (192.168.0.12) connect to service usb-utec initially as user utec (uid=1004, gid=1004) (pid 3469)
> [2007/08/28 09:54:06, 0] tdb/tdbutil.c:tdb_log(783)
>   tdb(/var/run/samba/locking.tdb): expand_file write of 1024 failed (Success)

This looks like the root problem.

Is there any obvious reason why samba would not be able to write to
locking.tdb?  E.g., out of disk space, strange file permissions?

If all else fails, you should be able to stop samba, rename locking.tdb to
locking.tdb.debug, and restart samba.

Cheers,
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