Doing an "also affect lightdm" seems bugs tend to land there and it could be it mis-using that code
Steve, Robert, do you have any idea of the issue is a lightdm, pam or samba one? Bug #876843 is a recent duplicate for Oneiric stable with 1.0.1 ** Changed in: samba (Ubuntu) Importance: Medium => High ** Also affects: samba (Ubuntu Oneiric) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: samba (Ubuntu Oneiric) Importance: Undecided => High ** Also affects: lightdm (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: lightdm (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: lightdm (Ubuntu Oneiric) Importance: Undecided => High -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/829221 Title: lightdm crashed with SIGSEGV in initialize_password_db() Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: New Status in “samba” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “lightdm” source package in Oneiric: New Status in “samba” source package in Oneiric: New Bug description: Happens on every login afer upgrading from 11.04 ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: lightdm 0.9.3-0ubuntu5 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-8.11-generic 3.0.1 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-8-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Aug 19 00:59:54 2011 Disassembly: => 0x0: Cannot access memory at address 0x0 ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/lightdm InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007) ProcCmdline: lightdm ProcCwd: / ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user) SegvAnalysis: Segfault happened at: 0x0: Cannot access memory at address 0x0 PC (0x00000000) not located in a known VMA region (needed executable region)! Stack memory exhausted (SP below stack segment) SegvReason: executing NULL VMA Signal: 11 SourcePackage: lightdm StacktraceTop: ?? () ?? () from /lib/security/pam_smbpass.so initialize_password_db () from /lib/security/pam_smbpass.so pam_sm_authenticate () from /lib/security/pam_smbpass.so ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpam.so.0 Title: lightdm crashed with SIGSEGV in initialize_password_db() UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-08-18 (0 days ago) UserGroups: To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/829221/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp