I think you did the right thing by installing Samba 3.0.34. Indeed the changelog suggest that it was fixed there: http://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.0.34.html o Andrew Tridgell * Avoid a race condition in glibc between AIO and setresuid(). * Become root for AIO operations.
2009/3/16, Jan Schneider <j.schnei...@uib.de>: > Yes, i have seen a lot of similar bug reports too, but all of them were > unresolved. > > When the problem appeared we checked a lot of configuration issues. > The problem seems NOT to be user or client specific. > The users where the PANIC appeared: > - had a unix account > - a samba account with the same uid > - no special ulimits set > - no group membership which seems to be responsible for the problem > - su <user> did work, opening files as this user did work, no messages > like: to many open files... > > # getent passwd 11789 > diehl:x:11789:11700::/home/diehl:/bin/bash > > # pdbedit -L -u diehl > diehl:11789: > > # su - diehl -c 'ulimit -u' > 30720 > > # getent group 11700 > <groupname>:x:11700: > > # net groupmap list | grep <groupname> > <groupname> (<SID>) -> <groupname> > > Samba worked without any problems if there were less than about 100 > clients/users connected. > > Volker Lendecke from SerNet proposed to set "change notify = no" as a > workaround, which we did not really test. > > If you need more information, please let me know, but since this server > acts as a domain controller in an productive environment I cannot > reproduce the bug. > > -- > samba PANIC: failed to set uid > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/341816 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > -- samba PANIC: failed to set uid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/341816 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs