On Tuesday 06 March 2007 11:01, Volker Lendecke wrote: > On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 10:02:35AM +0100, Yves Glodt wrote: > > some of my servers regularly come up with this error, which makes > > printing over samba impossible: > > > > Mar 6 09:06:44 server smbd[4431]: [2007/03/06 09:06:44, 0] > > tdb/tdbutil.c:tdb_log(772) > > Mar 6 09:06:44 server smbd[4431]: > > tdb(/var/cache/samba/printing/printer.tdb): rec_read bad magic 0xd9fee666 > > at offset=22796 > > If this really happens often to you, then you have some > basic problems with your setup.
The setup is a stock Ubuntu 6.06, using only ubuntu packages. I have 25 servers and it happens about once a week in total. (This might not sound like a lot, but it creates a support ticket on each occurrence..) > Either your hardware is > flaky I can not know 100% of course, but apart of the printing problem, the boxes run very well. > or your smbd processes tend to crash. I never had an smbd crashing so far (AFAIK). Samba version is 3.0.22. > If you happen to > use reiserfs for /var/cache/samba you might try to change > that fs to ext3. All my partitions are ext3, /var being on a separate one as well. is it worth that I increase the loglevel, or is there anything else I can watch for? I read somewhere that samba V3 would be able to recreate the tdb while running, but could not find a parameter for that. Is it possible at all? yves > Volker -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba