[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#593823: samba: Samba won't run after install

[Steve Langasek]

severity 593823 serious
thanks

On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 12:09:24PM +0200, Aniruddha wrote:
> Package: samba
> Version: 2:3.2.5-4lenny12
> Severity: important

> Samba refuses to start after a default installation. I think is has
> something to do with the passwd database.

> error message: 
> [2010/08/21 12:03:57,  0] lib/fault.c:dump_core(201)
>   dumping core in /var/log/samba/cores/smbd

> Steps to repdroduce:
> aptitude purge samba-common samba samba-common-bin smbclient
> aptitude install samba

No, the segfault is almost certainly because you have a backported
libwbclient0 from a different version of samba:

> Versions of packages samba depends on:
<snip>
> ii  libwbclient0    2:3.4.7~dfsg-2~bpo50+2   Samba winbind client library
<snip>

On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 12:19:21PM +0200, Aniruddha wrote:

<snip>
> #7  0x00007f3ba563e0bc in ?? () from /usr/lib/libtalloc.so.2
> #8  0x00007f3ba563dfaf in _talloc_free () from /usr/lib/libtalloc.so.2
> #9  0x00007f3ba6a67586 in wbcSidToGid () from /usr/lib/libwbclient.so.0
<snip>

Please try installing the version of libwbclient0 from lenny.  If this fixes
your problem, then we have an undeclared library backwards-incompatibility
between libwbclient from samba 3.2.5 and samba 3.4.7 (and probably later),
which should be addressed before release.

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