Alieniloquent

An update came down from Gentoo for Samba updating it to version 2.0.26a. We had been having trouble with a problem in 3.0.24 that had been fixed in a intervening release of Samba. So, naturally, I wanted to upgrade. But when I did, I got this mysterious error in my log.winbindd.

[2007/11/19 13:27:16, 0] nsswitch/winbindd.c:request_len_recv(517)
  request_len_recv: Invalid request size received: 2084

I have spent the entire day googling and yahooing and searching and grepping to no avail. Nothing I have tried worked. Now at one point I was reading and somebody said “reboot, some other services are using stale references to libnss_winbind.so.” I couldn’t imagine that was right, because if I rolled back to 3.0.24 everything worked again.

Well, through a course of events I ended up with the following line in /etc/nsswitch.conf:

shadow: shadow

As you can imagine, that didn’t work too well for my unix user that I keep on the box for when ADS is hosed. So I broke out the trusty install CD, rebooted, and fixed the file. I then rebooted and re-emerged samba. I thought I had put the mask in /etc/portage/package.mask to make sure it was 3.0.24 I was installing, but I hadn’t. Lo and behold everything worked.

All I had to do was reboot.

That was it.