updatedb problems

asmmsl · n00b Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 10

when I run updatedb it does not update the database. It will just instantly quit without searching the filesystem. It does create the file in /var/lib/locate if it is not there, but it is empty though.

I rememebr the very first time it started I Ctrl-C'ed it immediately to give some command-line options, and ever since whenever I run it it would quit right away, obviously no searching is done.

P.S. any suggestions which options should used? On my debian system "--localuser=nobody" is passed, any reason not to do this or any other options that may be useful? thanks

garo · Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2003 9:28 am Post subject:

probably your "updatedb" is damaged by the first ctrl-c, so i would re-emerge the package it belongs to:

Napalm Llama · Guru Joined: 04 Jun 2005 Posts: 533 Location: Cardiff, UK

Did you ever find the solution to this problem? I'm encountering it as well (and remerging things won't help, because I've just completed an emerge -e world)

[edit:]
Oh, apparently mine doesn't create /var/lib/locate - but then that file isn't present on my desktop system either, which has a perfectly functioning slocate.
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Luud · Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 8:13 pm Post subject: Slocate / updatedb tricky

There is a tricky bit with slocate.

In /etc/updatedb.conf a number of file system types are excluded from the search (see the PRUNEFS line). Most of these are unambiguous and a good choice. One of them is tricky: "auto".

If you have auto in /etc/fstab then your file systems mount fine and /etc/mtab will report the proper file system once they are mounted.

However, slocate will ignore "auto" file systems (probably because this is what you usually only use for removable devices).

So check you /etc/fstab and replace auto with the proper file system type OR remove auto from the PRUNEFS list.

P.S. I'm talking about "auto" and not "autofs"
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nixnut · Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2007 1:44 pm Post subject:

Moved from Installing Gentoo to Other Things Gentoo.
Not about getting gentoo installed, so moved here.
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