[Wylug-help] FC9 Samba glibc crashing

j.lander at leeds.ac.uk j.lander at leeds.ac.uk
Thu Sep 18 11:22:16 UTC 2008


>>>  Allowed connection from UNKNOWN (::ffff:10.1.1.113)
>>> *** glibc detected *** smbd: free(): invalid pointer: 0xb87051b0 ***

As far as I can tell, this is a valid heap address.

The warning could be due to an attempt to free a misaligned pointer, or 
memory that has already been freed.

There is a possibility that you are seeing a variant of this bug...

   https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5698

Samba have marked it as closed... but that doesn't mean that the fix made 
it into the official FC9 package.

It might be worth building yourself a new RPM from the official samba 
packaging.

- Jason



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