Re: Root file system skipped when mlocate (updatedb) is run via systemd timer

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On Wed, 2021-08-18 at 18:59 +0200, Francis.Montagnac@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> Hi.
> 
> On Wed, 18 Aug 2021 16:34:50 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2021-08-18 at 15:25 +0000, Jan-Henrik Sorsimo via users
> > wrote:
> 
> > > I took a look at the service unit file
> > > (/usr/lib/systemd/system/mlocate-updatedb.service). It has some
> > > sandboxing features set. When I set the value of "ProtectSystem"
> > > to
> > > either "false" or "strict", a manual run of the service does
> > > include
> > > the files under /usr in the database. Other options result in the
> > > behavior mentioned.
> 
> > > I can't see what sense this makes. That setting is supposed to
> > > just
> > > cover what gets mounted read-only. A systemd bug?
> 
> I see the same behavior since using a btrfs subvol for /
> 
> Commenting PRUNE_BIND_MOUNTS = "yes" in /etc/updatedb.conf solves
> this
> problem.
> 
> > I have the inverse problem, i.e. locate will find files in the root
> > filesystem but not in my /home.
> 
> May be the same cause ...

Looks like it. My /home is a BTRFS subvolume. Extraordinary that this
hasn't been fixed, given that F34 uses BTRFS by default.

poc
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