[Wylug-help] FC9 Samba glibc crashing

[Gary Stainburn]

On Thursday 18 September 2008 12:22:05 you wrote:
> >>>  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

I know that this is far from ideal, but I have found a work-around that has 
worked and has enabled me to install the new server today.

I went back to using FC8 and everything just worked as expected.  

-- 
Gary Stainburn
 
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