[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#707042: Samba segfault every 30-90 seconds

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Mon, 2013-05-06 at 23:36 -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> On May 6, 2013 11:11:34 PM you wrote:
> 
> > Updated my sid box on Sunday after the post-release floodgates opened
> > and Samba started segfaulting extremely frequently, and emailing me
> > every time.  I installed the samba-dbg package; below is the stack
> > trace from the emails.  I did check the log files as advised by the
> > email, but nothing jumped out as relevant.
> > 
> > I chose 'important' because it seems that samba is completely
> > broken by this.  My windows machine can't connect to the shares.
> 
> Since the segfault is in winbindd, I read the description, decided I
> don't need winbindd, and solved my problem by uninstalling it.  The windows 
> machine seems to connect fine to the shares.

This uses our fallback which is a much less efficient way to connect to
the DC, once per client connection. 

This issue has already been noticed upstream, at
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9854 with a patch.

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org