[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#1089853: Debian packaging patch to improve Samba panic-action messages

Douglas Bagnall douglas.bagnall at catalyst.net.nz
Fri Mar 7 00:14:13 GMT 2025


I have opened

https://salsa.debian.org/samba-team/samba/-/merge_requests/65

which modifies the language around the traceback to suggest causes other 
than segmentation faults.

As mentioned there, the Samba panic function actually has a string that 
explains the problem but it isn't passed to the panic-action script 
which sends this email. Getting that into the into the email would be 
moderately complicated (given backward compatibility, arbitrary strings, 
panicking software, etc) and often wouldn't be very helpful -- though we 
could improve the strings over time.

Douglas



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