Package: smbclient Version: 3.0.10-1 Severity: grave Justification: causes non-serious data loss
smbclient often loses files when getting a directory listing. Using amanda for backup with samba results in loss of data, causing incomplete backups. The problem is most likely to be occur when dealing with larger directories, perhaps directories with over 300 or 1000 files. I have seen the problem on my Debian system. Here's my test, where /Kathy/DATA/2120 WNmod/ is a large directory. for num in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do smbclient '\\puffin\c$' -U 'amanda%password' -E -d1 -Tcan /dev/null '/Kathy/DATA/2120 WNmod/*' > /tmp/foo/foolog$num.txt 2>&1; done for num in 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do diff -u /tmp/foo/foolog1.txt /tmp/foo/foolog${num}.txt; done The diff output includes the following, which shows 4 files which disappeared between the 2 runs: --- /tmp/foo/foolog1.txt 2005-03-02 11:46:45.000000000 -0800 +++ /tmp/foo/foolog9.txt 2005-03-02 11:46:46.000000000 -0800 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ dry_run set Domain=[KECK] OS=[Windows 5.0] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager] -tar: dumped 1193 files and directories -Total bytes written: 807012352 +tar: dumped 1189 files and directories +Total bytes written: 805666304 The bug has been reported to the samba bugzilla list, but the bug is important enough to be listed under Debian as well. The bug is considered critical on the bugzilla list. I'm marking it as grave for Debian, though I could probably justify critical. https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2271 -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages smbclient depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libcomerr2 1.35-6 The Common Error Description libra ii libkrb53 1.3.6-1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries ii libldap2 2.1.30-3 OpenLDAP libraries ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii libreadline4 4.3-11 GNU readline and history libraries ii samba-common 3.0.10-1 Samba common files used by both th -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]