Re: updatedb fails on F7....

["Doncho N. Gunchev" <gunchev gmail com>]

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?

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