Package: libsmbclient Version: 2:3.2.5-1 Severity: critical Justification: causes serious data loss
-- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages libsmbclient depends on: ii libc6 2.7-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcomerr2 1.41.3-1 common error description library ii libkrb53 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-4 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries ii libldap-2.4-2 2.4.11-1 OpenLDAP libraries ii libtalloc1 1.2.0~git20080616-1 hierarchical pool based memory all ii libwbclient0 2:3.2.5-1 client library for interfacing wit libsmbclient recommends no packages. libsmbclient suggests no packages. -- no debconf information In our network, there's a network storage (Network Appliances) that I mount on all the attached Linux clients via SAMBA or CIFS. Since 2 years, this works without any problems. I recently did some tests with Debian Lenny. In the beginning, everything went fine. Since an upgrade to Lenny (approx. 3 weeks ago), I have some very bad effects: Mounting the NetApp share is ok, but when changing to a directory below the mountpoint, the system quickly crashes or freezes. The directory in which one I change has some 250 directory entries. In the few cases, where the system doesn't crash and where I can do an "ls", the result only shows some 145 of the 250 directories. As I told, the system normally freezes. It does this nearly every time when entering "cd" followed by TAB (for bash completion). In that case, nothing works any longer, not the mouse nor the keyboard. Remote ssh shells cannot be opened, the system can even not be pinged any longer; I have todo a reset (causing data loss for all opened applications). I do not use any special mount options, just mount.cifs //myserver/share /mnt/xxx or mount.smbfs ... I can easily reproduce the problem on - Debian Lenny (since I updated it +- 3 weeks ago; before that update, there was no problem) - Ubuntu 8.10 - Xubuntu 8.10 The problem does not appear on - Debian Etch - Ubuntu 8.04 I made my tests on 5 different PCs and also on some virtual machines. The results are the same everywhere. I am not sure if it really is a libsmbclient bug. It might be as well somewhere else in Samba. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org