samba - Feb 2025 - what diagnostic messages most need improving?

hi Samba list

I have heard a rumour that sometimes Samba produces incoherent error 
messages that don't tell you what is really wrong.

I have some time to fix some of these. If you tell me your
"favourites",
I will see what I can do.

Douglas

Hi Douglas,
my "favorite" is "prefork_child_pipe_handler: Parent 720, Child
827 exited with status 0" (out of systemctl status samba-ad-dc) that
doesn?t show what child/deamon exited.
Cheers,
Joachim
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> Bagnall via samba
> Gesendet: Freitag, 7. Februar 2025 00:25
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> Betreff: [Samba] what diagnostic messages most need improving?
> 
> hi Samba list
> 
> I have heard a rumour that sometimes Samba produces incoherent error
> messages that don't tell you what is really wrong.
> 
> I have some time to fix some of these. If you tell me your
"favourites", I will
> see what I can do.
> 
> Douglas
> 
> 
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Hi Douglas!

I'm very happy with your proposition! I have several days in researching 
my problem with Samba, and I have some absolutely non informative but 
often appeared log messages, hope it can be improved and I can 
understand what problem in config or environment for samba.


1. ../../source3/smbd/smb2_server.c:4058(smbd_smb2_request_error_ex)
smbd_smb2_request_error_ex: smbd_smb2_request_error_ex: idx[1]
status[NT_STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND] || at
../../source3/smbd/smb2_create.c:360

What kind of problem here? What I need to change in config or maybe on 
client? No information, and internet nothing says about thet error too.


2. ../../source3/smbd/smb2_server.c:4058(smbd_smb2_request_error_ex)
smbd_smb2_request_error_ex: smbd_smb2_request_error_ex: idx[1]
status[NT_STATUS_PIPE_DISCONNECTED] || at ../../source3/smbd/smb2_read.c:135

That message appears many times, and I don't know what's wrong and what 
I need to change in config or system, or maybe on client.


Thank you and good day!

I get batches of these in the logs and try to run these to ground without
success. If these really mean nothing, let's stop their generation at lower
logging levels so we don't see them. If they really need addressing, give us
enough to investigate/resolve:

<27>Feb 24 00:43:04 emperador samba[1360]: [2025/02/24 00:43:04.341165, 
0]
../../lib/util/util_runcmd.c:355(samba_runcmd_io_handler)
<27>Feb 24 00:43:04 emperador samba[1360]:
/usr/local/samba/sbin/samba_dnsupdate: ; TSIG error with server: tsig verify
failure


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To: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: [Samba] what diagnostic messages most need improving?

hi Samba list

I have heard a rumour that sometimes Samba produces incoherent error
messages that don't tell you what is really wrong.

I have some time to fix some of these. If you tell me your
"favourites", I
will see what I can do.

Douglas


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