Re: Updatedb in xen mode



On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:46:42 +0200
Luc MAIGNAN <luc.maignan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

on a fedora 6, I've setup a guest OS (FC6 of course). On the guest OS,
when I do an 'updatedb', the system seems to be freezed and takes 99%
CPU. It hasn't finish after 1h30... (nothing has been installed after
the OS)

Possibly a case of this bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=237895

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