mlocate

#22 No locate.db even after updatedb
Closed: Invalid Opened by djc.

Closed: Invalid
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{{{
djc@miles rebar $ sudo updatedb
djc@miles rebar $ locate .dialyzer_plt
locate: can not stat () `/var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db': No such file or directory
djc@miles rebar $ sudo su -l
miles ~ # cd /var/lib/mlocate/
miles mlocate # ls -l
total 51576
-rw------- 1 root root 6553600 Oct 1 03:13 mlocate.db.AkeorG
-rw------- 1 root root 6635520 Oct 3 03:14 mlocate.db.EY0KT9
-rw------- 1 root root 6639616 Oct 4 10:34 mlocate.db.EiWVGW
-rw------- 1 root root 6230016 Sep 30 03:14 mlocate.db.Shbi49
-rw------- 1 root root 13447168 Sep 29 14:40 mlocate.db.VAo6El
-rw------- 1 root root 6668288 Oct 4 03:12 mlocate.db.gTyzDl
-rw------- 1 root root 6635520 Oct 2 03:12 mlocate.db.o0nXlW
}}}

This is on Gentoo, with mlocate-0.25 (but I didn't see any relevant mentions in the release notes for 0.26...).

Thanks for your report.

Can you run updatedb under strace, e.g.

{{{ strace -ff -o log -s 1024 updatedb }}}

and attach the log file(s) created in the current directory, or, assuming it is large, at least the first 1000 and last 1000 lines of the file? Note that it will contain names of files on your file system.

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