freeipa

#9843 Bump samba version for rawhide
Closed: fixed by frenaud. Opened by frenaud.

Closed: fixed
Reopen Issue

In rawhide, samba was updated to 4.23.0 and changed passdb API.

FreeIPA needs to update the spec file and bump the required samba version for f43+.

Metadata Update from @frenaud:
- Custom field on_review adjusted to https://github.com/freeipa/freeipa/pull/7911

The failure is visible in the nightly test test_adtrust_install (https://$ARTIFACT_SERVER/idm-ci/freeipa_upstream_nightly/Nightly-rawhide/master/2025-08-16_19-30/rawhide/test_adtrust_install/1/) with the following error in the journal:

Aug 16 20:48:46 master.ufreeipa.test systemd[1]: Starting smb.service - Samba SMB Daemon...
Aug 16 20:48:46 master.ufreeipa.test smbd[30346]: [2025/08/16 20:48:46.847749,  0, pid=30346] ../../source3/passdb/pdb_interface.c:70(smb_register_passdb)
Aug 16 20:48:46 master.ufreeipa.test smbd[30346]:   Can't register passdb backend!
Aug 16 20:48:46 master.ufreeipa.test smbd[30346]:   You tried to register a passdb module with PASSDB_INTERFACE_VERSION 25, while this version of samba uses version 30
Aug 16 20:48:46 master.ufreeipa.test smbd[30346]: [2025/08/16 20:48:46.847838,  0, pid=30346] ../../lib/util/modules.c:171(load_module_absolute_path)
Aug 16 20:48:46 master.ufreeipa.test smbd[30346]:   load_module_absolute_path: Module '/usr/lib64/samba/pdb/ipasam.so' initialization failed: {Wrong Type} There is a mismatch between the type of object that is required by the requested operation and the type of object that is specified in the request.
Aug 16 20:48:46 master.ufreeipa.test smbd[30346]: [2025/08/16 20:48:46.847945,  0, pid=30346] ../../source3/passdb/pdb_interface.c:173(make_pdb_method_name)
Aug 16 20:48:46 master.ufreeipa.test smbd[30346]:   No builtin nor plugin backend for ipasam found
Aug 16 20:48:46 master.ufreeipa.test systemd[1]: smb.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE

The error happens during the call to ipa-adtrust-install, when the installer restarts the services:

2025-08-16T20:48:46+0000 [ipatests.pytest_ipa.integration.host.Host.master.cmd72] DEBUG   [22/24]: starting CIFS services
2025-08-16T20:48:46+0000 [ipatests.pytest_ipa.integration.host.Host.master.cmd72] DEBUG ipaserver.install.adtrustinstance: CRITICAL CIFS services failed to start

master:

  • 6069147e3bea92059849e0a8c1948a0f1c3c8425 Spec file: bump samba version to 4.23.0 in f43 and above

ipa-4-12:

  • 72e1a1db6eb762811e37e5b4d929b47b4a69f006 Spec file: bump samba version to 4.23.0 in f43 and above

Metadata Update from @frenaud:
- Issue close_status updated to: fixed
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)
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