> Our problems with the attempted upgrade to 2.2.8 continue.
> On a production machine running 2.2.3, I backed out of the
> 2.2.8 upgrade due to winbind strangeness reported in earlier
> post. Things *appeared* normal, until this morning, when I
> noticed that an 'ls -l' no longer shows domain usernames, and
> a 'chacl -l' also no longer shows names, only winbind ids.
If winbind is not running, then nsswitch cannot convert those
uid's to user names. Is it running?
> Furthermore, comparing these ids to the output of 'getent
> passwd' or 'getent group', it appears the idmap is totally
> messed up. I have searched but not found any posts telling
> how to rebuild this file -surely there must be a way?
>
> There are 400 domain users involved, so rebuilding by hand is
> not an option...
Uh oh, sounds like you'll have to restore your winbindd_idmap.tdb
from backup.
Perhaps the format of the tdb changed from 2.2.3 to 2.2.8... or
maybe the file was lost during your upgrade/downgrade?
Sorry not more help,
~ Daniel
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