Fed Core 3 - locate command

[Michael Yep]

Have you run a memtest ?

At 03:16 PM 12/7/2004, you wrote:


>Hi,
>
>Recently installed Core 3 on an AMD64 with a Serial ATA drive and 512Megs of
>memory. Using the x86_64 images I ran into a couple of mystery
>problems/questions.
>
>First was the /etc/log/last file said it was 1T bytes long.
>Second was the locate command would initially work ( locate -u ) but somewhere
>along the line, a subsequent locate -u would fail. Locate string was ok. The
>command would first do a segmentation fault then the next locate -u would 
>hang.
>
>Process stops processing. Can't kill -9 PID. The only way to kill it is 
>reboot.
>The load pops up to ~1.0 and goes on forever.
>
>Reinstalled with x86_64 and had the same thing happen.
>
>Reinstalled with i386 isos and the /etc/log/last was fine but the locate 
>command
>has the same problem. I found the source code and recompiled it but same 
>thing.
>After a while locate -u does a segmentation fault then hangs.
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Ed
>FiberCloud, Inc.
>Seattle, WA
>
>
>
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Michael Yep
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