This bug will be cross-posted as a samba bug, since it only appears to occur when samba is running.
The new version of libc6 causes samba-3.0.0beta2-1 to crash.
The fix is either to downgrade libc6 or do not run samba
Below is a samba debug dump sent to root
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Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 10:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: root@fea_home (Zepp)
To: root@fea_home
Subject: Segfault in Samba
Status: O
The Samba 'panic action' script, /usr/share/samba/panic-action,
was called for pid 802 (/usr/sbin/smbd).
Below is a backtrace for this process generated with gdb, which shows
the state of the program at the time the error occured. You are
encouraged to submit this information as a bug report to Debian. For
information about the procedure for submitting bug reports , please see
http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting or the reportbug(1) manpage.
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(no debugging symbols found)...0x4025ac25 in waitpid () from /lib/libc.so.6
#0 0x4025ac25 in waitpid () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1 0x401fb22b in strtold_l () from /lib/libc.so.6
#2 0x0817eac5 in smb_panic ()
#3 0x0817e911 in process_exists ()
#4 0x0817194c in pidfile_pid ()
#5 0x081719d1 in pidfile_create ()
#6 0x081d5258 in main ()
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James D. Freels, Ph.D.
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freelsjd@ornl.gov