[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#436959: winbind hang & startup problem

[Steve Langasek]

Hi Arno,

On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 07:52:53PM +0200, Arno van Amersfoort wrote:
> I have a 2 very strange problems with winbind, and I think they are 
> related that's why file only one bug report. The first issue is that 
> when my machine boots, right after boot 'wbinfo -D {mydomain}' shows:

> Name              : PHYSICS
> Alt_Name          : Physics.xxxxxxxxxxxx
> SID               : S-1-5-21-1818682373-3371831198-3922779086
> Active Directory  : No
> Native            : No
> Primary           : Yes
> Sequence          : -1

> Although winbind works, it doesn't make sense as the machine is 
> connected to a Windows2003 ADS Server. But the strange thing is that 
> when I ie. issue '/etc/init.d/winbind restart' it shows:

> Name              : PHYSICS
> Alt_Name          : Physics.xxxxxxxxxxxx
> SID               : S-1-5-21-1818682373-3371831198-3922779086
> Active Directory  : Yes
> Native            : Yes
> Primary           : Yes
> Sequence          : -1

> Note that both "Active Directory" and "Native" now say Yes (as expected).

Do you have logs from winbind that correspond to these two runs of wbinfo
-D?  Is {mydomain} the domain that your machine is joined to?

> Another problem I experience (and I think it's related to the above 
> issue) is that once in a while winbind stops responding, obviously 
> causing users/groups not be resolved from the Windows2003 domain. 
> 'wbinfo -p' then shows:

> Ping to winbindd failed on fd -1
> could not ping winbindd!

Logs here would probably be helpful as well.

Thanks,
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