updatedb error

[Vivek J. Patankar]

Peter Reed wrote:
> I am receiving this error when I try to use the command updatedb:
> updatedb: src/updatedb.c:721: scan_cwd: Assertion `name_size > 1' failed.
> Aborted
> however locate does seem to work although how old the database is unknown  any 
> help with this would be appreciated.

It seems that I am also having the same problem. I ran updatedb in 
verbose mode and the error comes with the same folder everytime. A 
listing of the folder gives strange output. Output from my terminal below.

  /sys/module/nousb/parameters
  updatedb: src/updatedb.c:721: scan_cwd: Assertion `name_size > 1' failed.
  Aborted
  [root at marvin parameters]# file /sys/module/nousb/parameters
  /sys/module/nousb/parameters: directory
  [root at marvin parameters]# cd /sys/module/nousb/parameters
  [root at marvin parameters]# ls -l
  ls: cannot access : No such file or directory
  total 0
  -????????? ? ? ? ?                ?
  [root at marvin parameters]#

I tried rpm -qf to determine which package creates the folder but it 
says that the file is not owned by the package.

Can you run updatedb -v and check if the result is similar/identical?

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विवेक ज. पाटणकर (Vivek J. Patankar)

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