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

[Paolo]

On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 06:51:05AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> 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?

yep, seems that's the problem indeed; a while after filing the bug rep I
had the same suspect. Still, I'm not clear why it'd happen: fs was 100% full
ie filled beyond mke2fs -m limit, but there's still ~10 MB avail for root 
only, and: 

# ls -l /var/run/samba/locking.tdb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40200 2007-08-28 21:05 /var/run/samba/locking.tdb

so it seems that's root stuff and shouldn't have failed to write/expand it.

Log msg is also a bit confusing, it says 'failed (Success)' :-S

Anyway, samba shows poor/bad behaviour here (ie buggy), it went into a tight
loop, restarting smbd and firing off ~1000 panic msgs in a few mins and 
filling up logs.

Finally, there's the last log bits:

[2007/08/28 09:53:48, 0] lib/fault.c:dump_core(168)
  unable to change to /var/log/samba/cores/smbdrefusing to dump core
[2007/08/28 09:53:48, 0] smbd/server.c:main(847)

there's no such /var/log/samba/cores/smbdrefusing and no core dump; /var/log
is on another partition with plenty of space.


thanks
--
paolo