[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#588455: samba: 'panic action' script called for /usr/sbin/smbd

[Jan Waechtler]

Package: samba
Version: 2:3.4.8~dfsg-1~bpo50+1
Severity: normal

Since two weeks no I get mails (1-3 per day) about samba panicking. 
Never happened before in 5 years
I installed a backport of samba not so long ago to support Windows 7 
clients

Message is:

The Samba 'panic action' script, /usr/share/samba/panic-action,
was called for PID 15941 (/usr/sbin/smbd).
Below is a backtrace for this process generated with gdb, which shows
the state of the program at the time the error occurred. 

0xb6ff7424 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#0  0xb6ff7424 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1  0xb6c33833 in ?? ()
#2  0xb6ceeff4 in ?? ()
#3  0xb6bd146b in ?? ()
#4  0x00003e46 in ?? ()
#5  0xbfffd798 in ?? ()
#6  0x00000000 in ?? ()
The program is running.  Quit anyway (and detach it)? (y or n) [answered 
Y; input not from terminal]

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.5
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages samba depends on:
ii  adduser         3.110                    add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debcon 1.5.24                   Debian configuration management sy
ii  libacl1         2.2.47-2                 Access control list shared library
ii  libattr1        1:2.4.43-2               Extended attribute shared library
ii  libc6           2.7-18lenny4             GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcap2         2.11-2                   support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii  libcomerr2      1.41.3-1                 common error description library
ii  libcups2        1.3.8-1+lenny8           Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libgnutls26     2.4.2-6+lenny2           the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libkrb53        1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-5lenny4 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libldap-2.4-2   2.4.11-1+lenny1          OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpam-modules  1.0.1-5+lenny1           Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime  1.0.1-5+lenny1           Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g        1.0.1-5+lenny1           Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpopt0        1.14-4                   lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libtalloc2      2.0.1-1~bpo50+1          hierarchical pool based memory all
ii  libwbclient0    2:3.4.8~dfsg-1~bpo50+1   Samba winbind client library
ii  lsb-base        3.2-20                   Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  procps          1:3.2.7-11               /proc file system utilities
ii  samba-common    2:3.4.8~dfsg-1~bpo50+1   common files used by both the Samb
ii  update-inetd    4.31                     inetd configuration file updater
ii  zlib1g          1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12        compression library - runtime

Versions of packages samba recommends:
ii  logrotate                     3.7.1-5    Log rotation utility

Versions of packages samba suggests:
pn  ctdb                        <none>       (no description available)
pn  ldb-tools                   <none>       (no description available)
ii  openbsd-inetd [inet-superse 0.20080125-2 The OpenBSD Internet Superserver
pn  smbldap-tools               <none>       (no description available)

-- debconf information:
  samba/nmbd_from_inetd:
  samba/log_files_moved:
  samba/tdbsam: false
  samba/generate_smbpasswd: true
* samba/run_mode: daemons