samba - Sep 2019 - Issue after upgrade to samba-client-4.9.1-6.el7.x86_64 - Unable to initialize messaging context

If you upgrade, you might see multiple of these messages. 

Unable to initialize messaging context  

If you stop/start samba these are should be gone. 

If these are still there after stop/start, then your most probley missing some
packages in you install.
But i dont know much off .. EL7 .. but thats the first i would check here. 

Its also reported at Debian. 
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=931688 

There i noticed that smbclient is used but libsmbclient was not installed. 
So can you verify that also. 


Greetz, 

Louis

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> Van: samba [mailto:samba-bounces at lists.samba.org] Namens 
> Rowland penny via samba
> Verzonden: woensdag 18 september 2019 9:01
> Aan: sambalist
> Onderwerp: Re: [Samba] Issue after upgrade to 
> samba-client-4.9.1-6.el7.x86_64 - Unable to initialize 
> messaging context
> 
> On 17/09/2019 23:35, Stephen Black wrote:
> > Done.
> 
> And for those that didn't get the smb.conf
> 
> [global]
>  ??? workgroup = SAMBA
>  ??? security = user
> 
>  ??? passdb backend = tdbsam
> 
>  ??? printing = cups
>  ??? printcap name = cups
>  ??? load printers = yes
>  ??? cups options = raw
> 
> [homes]
>  ??? comment = Home Directories
>  ??? valid users = %S, %D%w%S
>  ??? browseable = No
>  ??? read only = No
>  ??? inherit acls = Yes
> 
> [printers]
>  ??? comment = All Printers
>  ??? path = /var/tmp
>  ??? printable = Yes
>  ??? create mask = 0600
>  ??? browseable = No
> 
> [print$]
>  ??? comment = Printer Drivers
>  ??? path = /var/lib/samba/drivers
>  ??? write list = @printadmin root
>  ??? force group = @printadmin
>  ??? create mask = 0664
>  ??? directory mask = 0775
> 
> You are running Samba as a standalone server.
> 
> I think your problem is that on 3.6, it was 'ntlm auth = yes', this
> changed to 'ntlm auth = no' at 4.7.0 and then again to 'ntlm
auth =
> ntlmv2-only' at 4.7.0
> 
> To test this, add 'ntlm auth = yes' to your smb.conf, if this 
> works, I 
> would find out how to turn off SMBv1 on your Windows server.
> 
> Rowland
> 
> 
> 
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On 18/09/2019 09:44, L.P.H. van Belle via samba wrote:
> If you upgrade, you might see multiple of these messages.
>
> Unable to initialize messaging context
>
> If you stop/start samba these are should be gone.
>
Even easier way to not see that message, run the command with sudo or as 
root ;-)

Rowland

Hmm,  ok, so yes, that works. 

@Rowland, check the command also with an log level 10. (with and without sudo) 

If we need smbclient with sudo, then is should be moved from usr/bin to usr/sbin
Dont you think?

Greetz, 

Louis
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> Van: samba [mailto:samba-bounces at lists.samba.org] Namens 
> Rowland penny via samba
> Verzonden: woensdag 18 september 2019 10:52
> Aan: samba at lists.samba.org
> Onderwerp: Re: [Samba] Issue after upgrade to 
> samba-client-4.9.1-6.el7.x86_64 - Unable to initialize 
> messaging context
> 
> On 18/09/2019 09:44, L.P.H. van Belle via samba wrote:
> > If you upgrade, you might see multiple of these messages.
> >
> > Unable to initialize messaging context
> >
> > If you stop/start samba these are should be gone.
> >
> Even easier way to not see that message, run the command with 
> sudo or as 
> root ;-)
> 
> Rowland
> 
> 
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On Wed, 2019-09-18 at 11:11 +0200, L.P.H. van Belle via samba
wrote:
> Hmm,  ok, so yes, that works. 
> 
> @Rowland, check the command also with an log level 10. (with and
> without sudo) 
> 
> If we need smbclient with sudo, then is should be moved from usr/bin
> to usr/sbin 
> Dont you think?
It's just a bug, which we have fixed in more recent versions.  If it is
seen on RHEL then customers of Red Hat need to file high-severity bugs
in bugzilla.redhat.com and raise via the customer's channels there.

I don't recall the solution being a trivial patch, but that is the kind
of thing RHEL users pay to have sorted out for them.

Andrew Bartlett
-- 
Andrew Bartlett                       https://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team  https://samba.org
Samba Developer, Catalyst IT          
https://catalyst.net.nz/services/samba

Hello Andrew, 

Thank you this reponce.. 

Ah, ok, now, im testing it on 4.10.8 on Debian and i see the same. 
So we can ignore it for now? 

As far i can tell everything works correctly here with 4.10.8.

Greetz, 

Louis


> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: Andrew Bartlett [mailto:abartlet at samba.org] 
> Verzonden: woensdag 18 september 2019 11:25
> Aan: L.P.H. van Belle; samba at lists.samba.org
> Onderwerp: Re: [Samba] Issue after upgrade to 
> samba-client-4.9.1-6.el7.x86_64 - Unable to initialize 
> messaging context
> 
> On Wed, 2019-09-18 at 11:11 +0200, L.P.H. van Belle via samba wrote:
> > Hmm,  ok, so yes, that works. 
> > 
> > @Rowland, check the command also with an log level 10. (with and
> > without sudo) 
> > 
> > If we need smbclient with sudo, then is should be moved from usr/bin
> > to usr/sbin 
> > Dont you think?
> 
> It's just a bug, which we have fixed in more recent versions. 
>  If it is
> seen on RHEL then customers of Red Hat need to file high-severity bugs
> in bugzilla.redhat.com and raise via the customer's channels there.
> 
> I don't recall the solution being a trivial patch, but that 
> is the kind
> of thing RHEL users pay to have sorted out for them.
> 
> Andrew Bartlett
> -- 
> Andrew Bartlett                       https://samba.org/~abartlet/
> Authentication Developer, Samba Team  https://samba.org
> Samba Developer, Catalyst IT          
> https://catalyst.net.nz/services/samba
> 
> 
> 
>