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

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

On 22/02/2012 13:49, Heiko Zuerker wrote:
> Quoting Dominic Raferd<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.
> Nice!
>
> I changed the code as proposed.
>

It's good to have got this bug. Great catch Andrzej :-)