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-<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Chapter 35. Reporting Bugs</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.60.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="SAMBA Project Documentation"><link rel="up" href="troubleshooting.html" title="Part V. Troubleshooting"><link rel="previous" href="problems.html" title="Chapter 34. Analysing and solving samba problems"><link rel="next" href="Appendixes.html" title="Part VI. Appendixes"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Chapter 35. Reporting Bugs</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="problems.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Part V. Troubleshooting</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Appendixes.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="chapter" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a name="bugreport"></a>Chapter 35. Reporting Bugs</h2></div><div><div class="author"><h3 class="author"><span class="firstname">Jelmer</span> <span class="othername">R.</span> <span class="surname">Vernooij</span></h3><div class="affiliation"><span class="orgname">The Samba Team<br></span><div class="address"><p><tt class="email">&lt;<a href="mailto:jelmer@samba.org">jelmer@samba.org</a>&gt;</tt></p></div></div></div></div><div><div class="author"><h3 class="author"><span class="surname">Someone; Tridge or Karl Auer perhaps?</span></h3></div></div><div><p class="pubdate"> 27 June 1997 </p></div></div><div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><a href="bugreport.html#id3010326">Introduction</a></dt><dt><a href="bugreport.html#id3010385">General info</a></dt><dt><a href="bugreport.html#id3010421">Debug levels</a></dt><dt><a href="bugreport.html#id3008517">Internal errors</a></dt><dt><a href="bugreport.html#id3008625">Attaching to a running process</a></dt><dt><a href="bugreport.html#id3008127">Patches</a></dt></dl></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id3010326"></a>Introduction</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p>Please report bugs using
- <a href="https://bugzilla.samba.org/" target="_top">bugzilla</a>.</p><p>
-Please take the time to read this file before you submit a bug
-report. Also, please see if it has changed between releases, as we
-may be changing the bug reporting mechanism at some time.
-</p><p>
-Please also do as much as you can yourself to help track down the
-bug. Samba is maintained by a dedicated group of people who volunteer
-their time, skills and efforts. We receive far more mail about it than
-we can possibly answer, so you have a much higher chance of an answer
-and a fix if you send us a &quot;developer friendly&quot; bug report that lets
-us fix it fast.
-</p><p>
-Do not assume that if you post the bug to the comp.protocols.smb
-newsgroup or the mailing list that we will read it. If you suspect that your
-problem is not a bug but a configuration problem then it is better to send
-it to the Samba mailing list, as there are (at last count) 5000 other users on
-that list that may be able to help you.
-</p><p>
-You may also like to look though the recent mailing list archives,
-which are conveniently accessible on the Samba web pages
-at <a href="http://samba.org/samba/" target="_top">http://samba.org/samba/</a>.
-</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id3010385"></a>General info</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p>
-Before submitting a bug report check your config for silly
-errors. Look in your log files for obvious messages that tell you that
-you've misconfigured something and run testparm to test your config
-file for correct syntax.
-</p><p>
-Have you run through the <a href="diagnosis.html" title="Chapter 33. The Samba checklist">diagnosis</a>?
-This is very important.
-</p><p>
-If you include part of a log file with your bug report then be sure to
-annotate it with exactly what you were doing on the client at the
-time, and exactly what the results were.
-</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id3010421"></a>Debug levels</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p>
-If the bug has anything to do with Samba behaving incorrectly as a
-server (like refusing to open a file) then the log files will probably
-be very useful. Depending on the problem a log level of between 3 and
-10 showing the problem may be appropriate. A higher level gives more
-detail, but may use too much disk space.
-</p><p>
-To set the debug level use the <i class="parameter"><tt>log level</tt></i> in your
-<tt class="filename">smb.conf</tt>. You may also find it useful to set the log
-level higher for just one machine and keep separate logs for each machine.
-To do this use:
-</p><pre class="programlisting">
-log level = 10
-log file = /usr/local/samba/lib/log.%m
-include = /usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf.%m
-</pre><p>
-then create a file
-<tt class="filename">/usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf.<i class="replaceable"><tt>machine</tt></i></tt> where
-<i class="replaceable"><tt>machine</tt></i> is the name of the client you wish to debug. In that file
-put any <tt class="filename">smb.conf</tt> commands you want, for example
-<i class="parameter"><tt>log level</tt></i> may be useful. This also allows you to
-experiment with different security systems, protocol levels etc on just
-one machine.
-</p><p>
-The <tt class="filename">smb.conf</tt> entry <i class="parameter"><tt>log level</tt></i>
-is synonymous with the parameter <i class="parameter"><tt>debuglevel</tt></i> that has
-been used in older versions of Samba and is being retained for backwards
-compatibility of <tt class="filename">smb.conf</tt> files.
-</p><p>
-As the <i class="parameter"><tt>log level</tt></i> value is increased you will record
-a significantly increasing level of debugging information. For most
-debugging operations you may not need a setting higher than
-<tt class="constant">3</tt>. Nearly
-all bugs can be tracked at a setting of <tt class="constant">10</tt>, but be
-prepared for a VERY large volume of log data.
-</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id3008517"></a>Internal errors</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p>
-If you get a <span class="errorname">INTERNAL ERROR</span> message in your log files
-it means that Samba got an unexpected signal while running. It is probably a
-segmentation fault and almost certainly means a bug in Samba (unless
-you have faulty hardware or system software).
-</p><p>
-If the message came from smbd then it will probably be accompanied by
-a message which details the last SMB message received by smbd. This
-info is often very useful in tracking down the problem so please
-include it in your bug report.
-</p><p>
-You should also detail how to reproduce the problem, if
-possible. Please make this reasonably detailed.
-</p><p>
-You may also find that a core file appeared in a <tt class="filename">corefiles</tt>
-subdirectory of the directory where you keep your samba log
-files. This file is the most useful tool for tracking down the bug. To
-use it you do this:
-</p><pre class="screen">
- <tt class="prompt">$ </tt><b class="userinput"><tt>gdb smbd core</tt></b>
-</pre><p>
-adding appropriate paths to smbd and core so gdb can find them. If you
-don't have gdb then try <b class="userinput"><tt>dbx</tt></b>. Then within the debugger
-use the command <b class="command">where</b> to give a stack trace of where the
-problem occurred. Include this in your report.
-</p><p>
-If you know any assembly language then do a
-<b class="command">disass</b> of the routine
-where the problem occurred (if its in a library routine then
-disassemble the routine that called it) and try to work out exactly
-where the problem is by looking at the surrounding code. Even if you
-don't know assembly, including this info in the bug report can be
-useful.
-</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id3008625"></a>Attaching to a running process</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p>
-Unfortunately some unixes (in particular some recent linux kernels)
-refuse to dump a core file if the task has changed uid (which smbd
-does often). To debug with this sort of system you could try to attach
-to the running process using
-<b class="userinput"><tt>gdb smbd <i class="replaceable"><tt>PID</tt></i></tt></b> where you get
-<i class="replaceable"><tt>PID</tt></i> from <span class="application">smbstatus</span>.
-Then use <b class="command">c</b> to continue and try to cause the core dump
-using the client. The debugger should catch the fault and tell you
-where it occurred.
-</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id3008127"></a>Patches</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p>
-The best sort of bug report is one that includes a fix! If you send us
-patches please use <b class="userinput"><tt>diff -u</tt></b> format if your version of
-diff supports it, otherwise use <b class="userinput"><tt>diff -c4</tt></b>. Make sure
-you do the diff against a clean version of the source and let me know
-exactly what version you used.
-</p></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="problems.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="troubleshooting.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Appendixes.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Chapter 34. Analysing and solving samba problems </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Part VI. Appendixes</td></tr></table></div></body></html>