severity 484235 important
thanks

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> Package: winbind
> Version: 1:3.0.28a-3
> Severity: critical
> Justification: breaks unrelated software

Sorry, that's overestimated.

winbind and samba works for dozens of users all around so that bug
does not deserve that severity.

> We are using winbind to authenticate users to the system for various
> services. The winbind daemon seems to crash many times a day. At the
> moment I have a cron job that restarts winbind and samba every time as
> crash has been detected to minimise the impact on the system.
> 
> This happens on two separate servers that we run winbind on.
> They are both located in different networks in different Active Directory 
> environments.
> I'll just report on one of the hosts that is more active and suffers from the 
> crashes more frequently.
> 
> Output from 'testparm -s /etc/samba/smb.conf' is as follows:

> The above seems to suggest something going wrong with LDAP?
> I have the latest libraries for LDAP in the testing distribution installed.
> Output from 'dpkg --list | grep ldap' is:
> 
>       ii  ldap-utils                  2.4.7-6.3                   OpenLDAP 
> utilities
>       ii  libldap-2.4-2               2.4.7-6.3                   OpenLDAP 
> libraries


Please at least try upgrading to 3.0.30 as soon as it enters testing
(as you seem to be using testing).

I have no idea if that may fix the problem or not, though.


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