Can't updatedb

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Fri Sep 7 22:28:05 UTC 2007


On 07/09/2007, Alan M. Evans <fedoralist at alanevans.org> wrote:
> updatedb is failing for me:
>
>         [root at skyhawk ~]# updatedb
>         updatedb: src/updatedb.c:601: scan_cwd: Assertion `name_size > 1' failed.
>         Aborted
>         [root at skyhawk ~]#
>
> Tried again with -v and it appears to be choking on:
>
>         /sys/module/nousb/parameters
>         updatedb: src/updatedb.c:601: scan_cwd: Assertion `name_size > 1' failed.
>         Aborted
>         [root at skyhawk ~]# cd /sys/module/nousb/parameters/
>         [root at skyhawk parameters]# ll
>         total 0
>         ?--------- ? ? ? ?            ?
>         [root at skyhawk parameters]# rm *
>         rm: cannot lstat `': No such file or directory
>         [root at skyhawk parameters]#
>
> What can I do about this? FC6, by the way.

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