updatedb fails on F7....

[Vivek J. Patankar]

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.

[root at marvin parameters]# updatedb -v
.
.
*big snip*
.
.
/sys/module/nfnetlink/sections/.text
/sys/module/nousb/parameters
updatedb: src/updatedb.c:721: scan_cwd: Assertion `name_size > 1' failed.
Aborted
[root at marvin ~]# cd /sys/module/nousb/parameters/
[root at marvin parameters]# ll
ls: cannot access : No such file or directory
total 0
-????????? ? ? ? ?                ?
[root at marvin parameters]#


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विवेक ज. पाटणकर (Vivek J. Patankar)

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