Re: Slocate - what is happening?

From: Steven Kinch (steven.kinch_at_ntlworld.com)
Date: 01/04/05 

Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 20:57:13 GMT

On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 20:35:53 +0000, Steven Kinch wrote:

> I have just reinstalled FC3 for AMD64 after a brief look at Mandrake 10.1
> for AMD64.
>
> Still fantastic but I have a weird problem with slocate that was not ther
> before. When I go to create the database with updatedb the system
> executes the right program but just sits there. A database is created in
> /var/lib/slocate but the updatedb command either never finishes or
> alternatively segfaults.
>
> I have tried uninstalling slocate and building and installing from source
> remaking all of the directories and symlinks with the right permissions.
>
> When that did not work, I deleted the configuration files in /etc and the
> data files in /var before uninstalling the "home made" version and
> reinstalling using yum. It still does not work.
>
> I suspect that a reinstall might work as I was copying stuff from a cd-rom
> onto the hard drive when I first tried to run updatedb and managed to
> crash X. This led to a ctrl + alt + backspace which killed most of the
> stuff I had running.
>
> However, I suspect that the answer is simpler than reinstalling and wonder
> if anyone has any ideas.

Follow up:

I just did an "upgrade" from the installation disk and it did not fix it
but, when I tried it I could hear the hard disk working away.

After it all stopped again and updatedb seg faulted I had a message:
Message from syslogd@localhost at Tue Jan 4 20:55:35 2005 ...
localhost kernel: general protection fault: 0000 [1]

Don't know if this clarifies things but any help would be gratefully
accepted.

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