I have opened

https://salsa.debian.org/samba-team/samba/-/merge_requests/65

which modifies the language around the traceback to suggest causes other than segmentation faults.

As mentioned there, the Samba panic function actually has a string that explains the problem but it isn't passed to the panic-action script which sends this email. Getting that into the into the email would be moderately complicated (given backward compatibility, arbitrary strings, panicking software, etc) and often wouldn't be very helpful -- though we could improve the strings over time.

Douglas

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