Hi guys. I filed a bug report with RH's Bugzilla but nothing happened there thus thought I'd let - if SIGs read this list - you guys know that Samba 4.16 is broken, hard-crashes. For better picture - Samba is managed by IPA -> $ systemctl restart smb.service Starting Samba SMB Daemon... [2022/06/08 19:17:32.937351, 0, pid=49122] ../../source3/smbd/server.c:1741(main) smbd version 4.16.1 started. Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2022 [2022/06/08 19:17:32.960756, 0, pid=49122] ../../lib/util/fault.c:172(smb_panic_log) =============================================================== [2022/06/08 19:17:32.960925, 0, pid=49122] ../../lib/util/fault.c:176(smb_panic_log) INTERNAL ERROR: Signal 6: Aborted in pid 49122 (4.16.1) [2022/06/08 19:17:32.960981, 0, pid=49122] ../../lib/util/fault.c:181(smb_panic_log) If you are running a recent Samba version, and if you think this problem is not yet fixed in the latest versions, please consider reporting this bug, see https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Bug_Reporting [2022/06/08 19:17:32.961022, 0, pid=49122] ../../lib/util/fault.c:182(smb_panic_log) =============================================================== [2022/06/08 19:17:32.961056, 0, pid=49122] ../../lib/util/fault.c:184(smb_panic_log) PANIC (pid 49122): Signal 6: Aborted in 4.16.1 [2022/06/08 19:17:32.961647, 0, pid=49122] ../../lib/util/fault.c:288(log_stack_trace) BACKTRACE: 15 stack frames: #0 /lib64/libsamba-util.so.0(log_stack_trace+0x34) [0x7f41bbc0c7c4] #1 /lib64/libsamba-util.so.0(smb_panic+0xd) [0x7f41bbc0ca1d] #2 /lib64/libsamba-util.so.0(+0xeab9) [0x7f41bbc0cab9] #3 /lib64/libpthread.so.0(+0x12ce0) [0x7f41bb83bce0] #4 /lib64/libc.so.6(gsignal+0x10f) [0x7f41bb2a4a4f] #5 /lib64/libc.so.6(abort+0x127) [0x7f41bb277db5] #6 /lib64/libtalloc.so.2(+0x2f40) [0x7f41a34a7f40] #7 /lib64/libtalloc.so.2(+0x336c) [0x7f41a34a836c] #8 /usr/lib64/samba/pdb/ipasam.so(+0x11c2f) [0x7f41a38e7c2f] #9 /lib64/libsamba-passdb.so.0(make_pdb_method_name+0xb2) [0x7f41bbdae2f2] #10 /lib64/libsamba-passdb.so.0(+0x1d604) [0x7f41bbdae604] #11 /lib64/libsamba-passdb.so.0(initialize_password_db+0x1d) [0x7f41bbdb096d] #12 /usr/sbin/smbd(main+0x5d9) [0x55c945bbcf09] #13 /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf3) [0x7f41bb290ca3] #14 /usr/sbin/smbd(_start+0x2e) [0x55c945bbe6de] [2022/06/08 19:17:32.962008, 0, pid=49122] ../../source3/lib/dumpcore.c:318(dump_core) coredump is handled by helper binary specified at /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern smb.service: Main process exited, code=dumped, status=6/ABRT smb.service: Failed with result 'core-dump'. Failed to start Samba SMB Daemon. many thanks, L.