Updatedb

[Rick Stevens]

Daniel Stonier wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 22:40:59 +0200, Alexander Dalloz 
> <alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:
> 
>> Am Do, den 08.04.2004 schrieb Daniel Stonier um 22:31:
>>
>>> Getting updatedb falling into an uninterruptable sleep whenever it tries
>>> to run.
>>> I noticed there's a couple of people who have had the same problem in 
>>> the
>>> archives, but no solutions to the problem. Has anyone managed to 
>>> figure out
>>> what's causing it and how to get around it yet?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Daniel.
>>
>>
>> Edit "/etc/cron.daily/slocate.cron" and let the shebang line (first
>> script line) to appear "#!/bin/sh -x" and append to the updatedb line at
>> the end the parameter "-v". Then run "/etc/cron.daily/slocate.cron" by
>> hand and check the output until it 'sleeps'.
>>
>> Alexander
> 
> 
> Actually, not sure its anything to do with updatedb now. Seems my root user
> is getting a little unstable. A couple of minutes later I got rpm going
> into uninterruptable sleep as well, so I tried an rpm -qa <xxx> with 
> both my
> regular user and my root user. Regular user's command worked fine, but the
> root one went into uninterruptable sleep.
> 
> Rebooted the computer (couldn't think of any other way or reinitialising 
> the
> root user) and everything works fine as root again. Be interesting to see
> if the problem comes up again.

Check the free space on your root filesystem.  It may be getting full.
That can cause a number of weirdnesses.  Also check the root user's
mailbox.
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