Not using ubuntu, but this issue is happening to me and seemingly to a lot of folks. I think I've found the cause.
In my case, it was a matter of incorrectly configured DNS causing creds.get_named_ccache() to fail to find the KDC with which to obtain credentials. No core is being dumped in my case; I was just getting this famous stack dump when trying to do: /usr/local/samba/sbin/samba_dnsupdate --verbose --all-names as is suggested in the how-to I was reading to set up Samba. A couple minutes with strace revealed that it was trying to look up vmnet-dc1.vmnet.us using my upstream ISP's name server. At first I just put 127.0.0.1 in the /etc/krb.conf for the kdc and admin_server settings in the [realms] section. This got me past the stacktrace but I was stilling getting a lot of '. .. blah blah blah not found' errors. Then I realized that I had left my ISP DNS in /etc/resolv.conf when I was wget-ing a needed source tarball, and forgot to set it back to 127.0.0.1 (to use the samba-populated DNS server locally). Herp derp derp! :) So I set resolv.conf to point at 127.0.0.1 and set krb5.conf to use the correct DNS names for kdc, etc. Bingo! It now works perfectly. Bottom line with this "bug" I think is that you need to be VERY careful to set up DNS right or things will fail. (DNS tends to be that way) /etc/resolv.conf: ------------ snip snip ------------------- search vmnet.us nameserver 127.0.0.1 ------------ snip snip ------------------- /etc/krb5.conf ------------ snip snip ------------------- [logging] default = FILE:/var/log/krb5libs.log kdc = FILE:/var/log/krb5kdc.log admin_server = FILE:/var/log/kadmind.log [libdefaults] default_realm = VMNET.US dns_lookup_realm = false dns_lookup_kdc = true ticket_lifetime = 24h renew_lifetime = 7d forwardable = true [realms] VMNET.US = { kdc = vmnet-dc1.vmnet.us admin_server = vmnet-dc1.vmnet.us } [domain_realm] .vmnet.us = VMNET.US vmnet.us = VMNET.US ------------ snip snip ------------------- -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/809638 Title: samba_dnsupdate crashed with RuntimeError in get_credentials(): kinit for INTEL$@REALM failed (Cannot contact any KDC for requested realm) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/samba/+bug/809638/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs