Re: updatedb fails on F7....

Vivek J. Patankar wrote, at 10/01/2007 07:16 PM +9:00:
Doncho N. Gunchev wrote:
On Sunday 2007-09-30 21:40:38 Globe Trotter wrote:
so what is the solution to this, as root?

# updatedb
updatedb: src/updatedb.c:721: scan_cwd: Assertion `name_size > 1' failed.
Aborted

How much time does it take it to give this message? Generally speaking you
should call /etc/cron.daily/mlocate.cron, which will tell updatedb what
not to index (ex: /dev, /proc, /sys, /selinux, /tmp...). Maybe one of
these pseudo filesystems is causing the problem, try mlocate.cron?

Better still, add /sys to the PRUNEPATHS parameter in /etc/updatedb.conf
Run updatedb with the -v flag and you'll probably notice that it gets stuck at /sys/module/nousb/parameters. That's probably because of a file in there that has a zero sized filename.

This is a workaround for a known bug. Please check:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=242715
Bugzilla Bug 242715: Updatedb commad aborts unless /sys directory is pruned (fresh install)

Regards,
Mamoru

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