[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#650958: samba INTERNAL ERROR: Signal 11 - PANIC - BACKTRACE: 16 stack frames

[Mehul Sanghvi]

Package: samba
Version: 2:3.6.1-3
Followup-For: Bug #650958



I too am suffering from this.  And it does not seem to be affecting
just powerpc systems.  According to bug #588455, this is happening on
i386 as well.

Below is the output of what I got in my mail:

----- begin mail output -------
The Samba 'panic action' script, /usr/share/samba/panic-action,  
was called for PID 1693 (/usr/sbin/smbd).
This means there was a problem with the program, such as a segfault. 
Below is a backtrace for this process generated with gdb, which shows
the state of the program at the time the error occurred.  The Samba
log files may contain additional information about the problem.

If the problem persists, you are encouraged to first install the
samba-dbg package, which contains the debugging symbols for the Samba
binaries.  Then submit the provided information as a bug report to
Debian.  For information about the procedure for submitting bug
reports, please see http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting or the
reportbug(1) manual page.

[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
0x201a4f34 in waitpid () from /lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
#0  0x201a4f34 in waitpid () from /lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
#1  0x20139eb4 in ?? () from /lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
#2  0x20cd87e0 in smb_panic ()
#3  0x20cc5b10 in ?? ()
#4  <signal handler called>
#5  0x2017cf24 in strlen () from /lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
#6  0x20cb7ff4 in ?? ()
#7  0x20cb859c in tdb_pack ()
#8  0x20c9a558 in printer_list_set_printer ()
#9  0x20c91874 in pcap_cache_add ()
#10 0x20c91944 in pcap_cache_replace ()
#11 0x20c9411c in ?? ()
#12 0x20ceb390 in run_events_poll ()
#13 0x20ceb544 in ?? ()
#14 0x20cec5f8 in _tevent_loop_once ()
#15 0x209492f0 in main ()

A debugging session is active.

        Inferior 1 [process 1693] will be detached.

Quit anyway? (y or n) [answered Y; input not from terminal]    

------- end mail output ------------


Please increase the severity from grave.  


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-powerpc-smp (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
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 samba depends on:
ii  adduser                3.113
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.41
ii  libacl1                2.2.51-5
ii  libattr1               1:2.4.46-5
ii  libc6                  2.13-24
ii  libcap2                1:2.22-1
ii  libcomerr2             1.42-1
ii  libcups2               1.5.0-13
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2       1.10+dfsg~alpha2-1
ii  libk5crypto3           1.10+dfsg~alpha2-1
ii  libkrb5-3              1.10+dfsg~alpha2-1
ii  libldap-2.4-2          2.4.25-4+b1
ii  libpam-modules         1.1.3-6
ii  libpam-runtime         1.1.3-6
ii  libpam0g               1.1.3-6
ii  libpopt0               1.16-3
ii  libtalloc2             2.0.7-3
ii  libtdb1                1.2.9-4+b1
ii  libwbclient0           2:3.6.1-3
ii  lsb-base               3.2-28
ii  procps                 1:3.2.8-11
ii  samba-common           2:3.6.1-3
ii  update-inetd           4.41
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3

Versions of packages samba recommends:
pn  logrotate  3.8.1-1
pn  tdb-tools  <none>

Versions of packages samba suggests:
pn  ctdb                              <none>
pn  ldb-tools                         <none>
pn  openbsd-inetd [inet-superserver]  0.20091229-1
pn  smbldap-tools                     <none>

-- debconf information:
* samba/generate_smbpasswd: true
* samba/run_mode: daemons
  samba-common/title: