On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 23:49:45 +0200 Martti Kühne <mysatyre@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 05:51:36PM +0100, P .NIKOLIC wrote: > > Hi .. > > > > Yes it is there .. > > > > -rw-r----- 1 root locate 7868436 Apr 15 13:48 mlocate.db > > > > Doing a strings on the file it contains the expected data but i > > still get no files show up when i try locate filename even if the > > file is listed in the db and it Actually exists on the drive and > > is good > > > > is the data up to date after updatedb? > > Actually, no it's not. > > the header of mlocate.db is tested on configuration changes, > described in [1]. Likely, configuration has changed with a recent > update, so your problem would possibly have been fixed right after > you looked into "man mlocate.db" > > I am just confused to find you never having had this problem > before...? > > cheers! > mar77i > > [1] http://linux.die.net/man/5/mlocate.db Hi . It has been flakey for a while but now it just does not do anything i have no reports of errors anywhere just displays nothing something failing on my guess would be a changed permission somewhere althou i dont mess around with permissions outside of my user area . Pete .. -- Linux 7-of-9 3.3.1-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Apr 3 06:46:17 UTC 2012 x86_64 AMD Phenom(tm) 9600B Quad-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
