I noticed that my samba daemon is not running anymore:

 /etc/init.d/samba restart
 * Stopping Samba daemons
                   start-stop-daemon: warning: failed to kill 5093: No
such process

            [ OK ]
 * Starting Samba daemons
            [ OK ]


/var/log/samba# cat log.smbd
[2008/11/23 16:34:52,  0] smbd/server.c:main(1213)
  smbd version 3.2.3 started.
  Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2008
[2008/11/23 16:34:52,  0] lib/util_tdb.c:tdb_wrap_log(886)
  tdb(/var/lib/samba/secrets.tdb): transaction_read: failed at
off=1886330996 len=24
[2008/11/23 16:34:52,  0] lib/util_tdb.c:tdb_wrap_log(886)
  tdb(/var/lib/samba/secrets.tdb): transaction_read: failed at
off=1886330996 len=24
[2008/11/23 16:34:52,  0] lib/util_tdb.c:tdb_wrap_log(886)
  tdb(/var/lib/samba/secrets.tdb): transaction_read: failed at
off=1886330996 len=24
[2008/11/23 16:34:52,  0] lib/util_tdb.c:tdb_wrap_log(886)
  tdb(/var/lib/samba/secrets.tdb): transaction_read: failed at
off=1886330996 len=24
[2008/11/23 16:34:52,  0] lib/util_tdb.c:tdb_wrap_log(886)
  tdb(/var/lib/samba/secrets.tdb): transaction_read: failed at
off=1650750572 len=24
[2008/11/23 16:34:52,  0] passdb/machine_sid.c:pdb_generate_sam_sid(166)
  pdb_generate_sam_sid: Failed to store generated machine SID.
[2008/11/23 16:34:52,  0] lib/util.c:smb_panic(1663)
  PANIC (pid 10211): could not generate a machine SID
[2008/11/23 16:34:52,  0] lib/util.c:log_stack_trace(1767)
  BACKTRACE: 6 stack frames:
   #0 /usr/sbin/smbd(log_stack_trace+0x2d) [0xb7cc23cc]
   #1 /usr/sbin/smbd(smb_panic+0x80) [0xb7cc2529]
   #2 /usr/sbin/smbd(get_global_sam_sid+0x6f3) [0xb7bc9247]
   #3 /usr/sbin/smbd(main+0x9f7) [0xb7b62530]
   #4 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe5) [0xb7683685]
   #5 /usr/sbin/smbd [0xb7b5faf1]
[2008/11/23 16:34:52,  0] lib/util.c:smb_panic(1668)
  smb_panic(): calling panic action [/usr/share/samba/panic-action 10211]
[2008/11/23 16:34:52,  0] lib/util.c:smb_panic(1676)
  smb_panic(): action returned status 0
[2008/11/23 16:34:52,  0] lib/fault.c:dump_core(201)
  dumping core in /var/log/samba/cores/smbd

#/etc/init.d/samba status
 * nmbd is running.
 * smbd is not running.


This is after Solbergs modifications.
if I reset the orginal files, i get this:

[2008/11/23 16:43:13,  0] smbd/server.c:main(1213)
  smbd version 3.2.3 started.
  Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2008
[2008/11/23 16:43:13,  0] lib/util_tdb.c:tdb_wrap_log(886)
  tdb(/var/lib/samba/secrets.tdb): transaction_read: failed at
off=1886330996 len=24
[2008/11/23 16:43:13,  0] lib/util_tdb.c:tdb_wrap_log(886)
  tdb(/var/lib/samba/secrets.tdb): transaction_read: failed at
off=1886330996 len=24
[2008/11/23 16:43:13,  0] lib/util_tdb.c:tdb_wrap_log(886)
  tdb(/var/lib/samba/secrets.tdb): transaction_read: failed at
off=1886330996 len=24
[2008/11/23 16:43:13,  0] lib/util_tdb.c:tdb_wrap_log(886)
  tdb(/var/lib/samba/secrets.tdb): transaction_read: failed at
off=1886330996 len=24
[2008/11/23 16:43:13,  0] lib/util_tdb.c:tdb_wrap_log(886)
  tdb(/var/lib/samba/secrets.tdb): transaction_read: failed at
off=1650750572 len=24
[2008/11/23 16:43:13,  0] passdb/machine_sid.c:pdb_generate_sam_sid(166)
  pdb_generate_sam_sid: Failed to store generated machine SID.
[2008/11/23 16:43:13,  0] lib/util.c:smb_panic(1663)
  PANIC (pid 10966): could not generate a machine SID
[2008/11/23 16:43:13,  0] lib/util.c:log_stack_trace(1767)
  BACKTRACE: 6 stack frames:
   #0 /usr/sbin/smbd(log_stack_trace+0x2d) [0xb7c693cc]
   #1 /usr/sbin/smbd(smb_panic+0x80) [0xb7c69529]
   #2 /usr/sbin/smbd(get_global_sam_sid+0x6f3) [0xb7b70247]
   #3 /usr/sbin/smbd(main+0x9f7) [0xb7b09530]
   #4 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe5) [0xb762a685]
   #5 /usr/sbin/smbd [0xb7b06af1]
[2008/11/23 16:43:13,  0] lib/util.c:smb_panic(1668)
  smb_panic(): calling panic action [/usr/share/samba/panic-action 10966]
[2008/11/23 16:43:13,  0] lib/util.c:smb_panic(1676)
  smb_panic(): action returned status 0
[2008/11/23 16:43:13,  0] lib/fault.c:dump_core(201)
  dumping core in /var/log/samba/cores/smbd



They look identical...