Sunday, February 24, 2013

undefined symbol: tdb_transaction_start_nonblock

When enabling Samba on an openSUSE instance, I received the above error when I tried to use:

net join

to join a domain.

Apparently there are some dependency issues.  To resolve this problem I used yast to find libtdb and install it and the error went away.

However, when I tried to start Samba on startup it failed.  I discovered this second error by looking in /var/log/samba/log.smbd:

/var/sbin/smbd: symbol lookup error: /usr/sbin/smbd: undefined symbol: wbcSidsToUnixIds

I found that this is from libwbclient0, so I used yast to install it (version 3.6.3-115.1) and this second error went away.   You may have to first stop the nmb daemon using:

rcnmb stop


After rebooting I checked the status of both nmb and smb using the following commands:

rcsmb status
and
rcnmb status

and now both daemons are running.