Since 3.2 the profiles utility doesn't work. Somebody should do the rpc (un-)marshall-stuff with the idl-system instead of the deprecated prs_* functions. --> This is the last place where the prs_* are used. Programm output: bbaumba@laila # profiles ~/profile/NTUSER.DAT ndr_pull_error(11): ndr_pull_relative_ptr1 rel_offset(27263236) > ndr->data_size(4096) ndr_pull_security_descriptor failed: NDR_ERR_BUFSIZE prs_grow: Buffer overflow - unable to expand buffer by 36 bytes. (...) regfio_rootkey: corrupt registry file ? No root key record located Could not get rootkey The error occurs at the call of regfio_rootkey() in utils/profiles.c utils/net_rpc_registry.c Backtrace: Program exited with code 03. (gdb) break ndr_pull_security_descriptor Breakpoint 1 at 0x7ffff7f4360e: file librpc/gen_ndr/ndr_security.c, line 752. (gdb) run [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] Breakpoint 1, ndr_pull_security_descriptor (ndr=0x7ffff8228f80, ndr_flags=3, r=0x7ffff8228f00) at librpc/gen_ndr/ndr_security.c:752 (gdb) bt #0 ndr_pull_security_descriptor (ndr=0x7ffff8228f80, ndr_flags=3, r=0x7ffff8228f00) at librpc/gen_ndr/ndr_security.c:752 #1 0x00007ffff7f3d8bc in ndr_pull_struct_blob (blob=0x7fffffffda20, mem_ctx=0x7ffff8228f00, p=0x7ffff8228f00, fn=0x7ffff7f435ef <ndr_pull_security_descriptor>) at ../librpc/ndr/ndr.c:852 #2 0x00007ffff7f2f499 in unmarshall_sec_desc (mem_ctx=0x7ffff8224700, data=0x7ffff82249d0 "hbin", len=4096, psecdesc=0x7ffff8228e98) at lib/secdesc.c:324 #3 0x00007ffff7f5b87d in hbin_prs_sk_rec (desc=0x7ffff7fd8b39 "sk_rec", hbin=0x7ffff8224920, depth=2, sk=0x7ffff8228e60) at registry/regfio.c:772 #4 0x00007ffff7f5c965 in hbin_prs_key (file=0x7ffff8223060, hbin=0x7ffff8224920, nk=0x7ffff8224830) at registry/regfio.c:1078 #5 0x00007ffff7f5cc4f in next_nk_record (file=0x7ffff8223060, hbin=0x7ffff8224920, nk=0x7ffff8224830, eob=0x7fffffffdb87) at registry/regfio.c:1158 #6 0x00007ffff7f5d693 in regfio_rootkey (file=0x7ffff8223060) at registry/regfio.c:1395 #7 0x00007ffff7e884d3 in main (argc=2, argv=0x7fffffffde58) at utils/profiles.c:292