Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Problem with mount.cifs

[Dominic R. <dl...@ed...>]

On 21/02/2012 21:57, Heiko Zuerker wrote:
> Quoting Andrzej Odyniec<an...@ma...>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Heiko Zuerker wrote:
>>> That would explain why it works on the 64 bit version, since libsafe
>>> is disabled there.
>>>
>>> You can easily test this. Delete the file /etc/ld.so.preload.
>>> Not sure if you have to bounce or not.
>> Yes, I found it here:
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/deb...@li.../msg310487.html
>> so, Dominic was right...
>>
>>> I would be open to completely removing libsafe from DL. It hasn't been
>>> updated in a decade...
>> As soon as I discovered that libsafe captures access to realpath, I
>> turned off
>> the libsafe from ld.so.preload and the problem disappeared. I started to
>> wonder how to patch libsafe, but if you propose to remove, it may
>> not worth to
>> think about...
> I removed libsafe from CVS and added code to upgrade-config to remove
> the specific line from /etc/ld.so.preload
> The changes are untested, please let me know if they work (especially
> the upgrade-config)
>

Please see my suggestion in Mantis. The good news is that with this line 
taken out of /etc/ld.so.preload and samba restarted, the problem 
requiring 'wide links=yes' is gone in 1.6.0-RC2 32 bit.