samba - Mar 2004 - alloc_sub_basic: NULL source string!

Starting three days ago I have found over 4,000 of these error messages in
my messages log.

Mar  5 15:49:48 fs3 smbd[13785]:   alloc_sub_basic: NULL source string!
This should not happen

Nothing has been changed on the samba config in over a week and that change
was about the spin lock time setting.  The server is RedHat ES 3 running
Samba 3.0.2.  The client machines are a mix of Win98 and WinXP Pro on a
domain with Samba as the PDC.

The only effect I have seen on client machines is that one WinXP Pro box
once took several minutes to log in and load it's roaming profile from the
server.

On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 03:52:09PM -0600, Jeff Umbach
wrote:
> Starting three days ago I have found over 4,000 of these error messages in
> my messages log.
> 
> Mar  5 15:49:48 fs3 smbd[13785]:   alloc_sub_basic: NULL source string!
> This should not happen
> 
> Nothing has been changed on the samba config in over a week and that change
> was about the spin lock time setting.  The server is RedHat ES 3 running
> Samba 3.0.2.  The client machines are a mix of Win98 and WinXP Pro on a
> domain with Samba as the PDC.
Any chance you could add a smb_panic call in this case so we
can track down the cause ?

Jeremy.

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On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Jeff Umbach wrote:
> Starting three days ago I have found over 4,000 of these error messages
> in my messages log.
> 
> Mar 5 15:49:48 fs3 smbd[13785]:  alloc_sub_basic: NULL source string!
> This should not happen
> 
> Nothing has been changed on the samba config in over a week and that
> change was about the spin lock time setting.  The server is RedHat ES 3
> running Samba 3.0.2.  The client machines are a mix of Win98 and WinXP
> Pro on a domain with Samba as the PDC.
> 
> The only effect I have seen on client machines is that one WinXP Pro box
> once took several minutes to log in and load it's roaming profile from
> the server.
Unless you can grab a higher debug log that gives some context to the 
errors, there's not a lot we can do with this one.




cheers, jerry
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