[Wylug-help] FC9 Samba glibc crashing

[Jim Jackson]

On Thu, 18 Sep 2008, Gary Stainburn wrote:

> On Thursday 18 September 2008 10:20, you wrote:
>> Gary,
>>
>>>  Allowed connection from UNKNOWN (::ffff:10.1.1.113)
>>> *** glibc detected *** smbd: free(): invalid pointer: 0xb87051b0 ***
>>
>> Is it significant that you are using a IPv6 style address?
>>
>
> I don't know why it's using IPv6 addresses because they are not in use on the
> server or my network.

Red Herring.

It's not an IPv6 address. It's the way you express an ipv4 address in an 
ipv6 style.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4_mapped_address

IIRC this representation can be disabled, though I forget how. It's really 
wierd first time you see it in logs and things.

Jim

> When configuring the network while doing the install I unticked the IPv6
> options, and checking the network settings that still appears to be the case.
>
> When setting up the smb.conf I did it manually using vim rather than using
> system-config-samba.  The settings I used are based on the two FC5 based
> servers I'm replacing with a single FC9 server, with changes where necessary.
>
> I even tried the traditional Microsot solution and uninstalled the samba RPM's
> and re-installed.
>
> Gary
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