On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 01:49:28PM +0200, Michael Wood wrote: > On 30 November 2011 11:38, Volker Lendecke <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 09:55:55AM +0100, skull wrote: > >> no problem. (why didn't i think of this myself? :-) ) > >> > >> heres /var/log/messages: > >> http://pastebin.com/KcciHs5L > >> > >> and heres /var/log/samba/smbd.log > >> http://pastebin.com/mezTnNm6 > > > > Nov 30 07:00:24 dc smbd[16828]: tdb(/var/lib/samba/locking.tdb): > > tdb_rec_read bad magic 0x42424242 at offset=3494648 > > > > In the past these problems have often been caused by bad > > hardware. > > If it's bad hardware, where does the "BBBB" come from? Seems sort of > unlikely (although, of course, not impossible.) > > Does tdb ever set things to 0x42424242 somewhere in order to mark it > as "freed" or something? I don't see anything like that from a > cursory glance at the code, though.
Newly allocated file space will be filled with that pattern. If you have different proof that we have a software bug and a patch, I would be more than happy to review it. With best regards, Volker Lendecke -- SerNet GmbH, Bahnhofsallee 1b, 37081 Göttingen phone: +49-551-370000-0, fax: +49-551-370000-9 AG Göttingen, HRB 2816, GF: Dr. Johannes Loxen http://www.sernet.de, mailto:[email protected] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
