Steinar,
> Thanks for the bug report. Is there anything special about your
> /var/lib/plocate? Unusual filesystems? SELinux permissions?
Yes, it is a Debian Live image, so it is an Overlay filesystem
(debian-live-testing-amd64-standard.iso).
> I assume this is the O_TMPFILE call somehow, but it would be nice
> if you could verify by doing
> sudo strace updatedb
> and seeing which call is the failing one.
Correct. Below is the tail of the output.
Thank you!
Daniel Lewart
Urbana, Illinois
---
umask(027) = 022
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/var/lib/plocate/", O_WRONLY|O_TMPFILE, 0640) = -1
EOPNOTSUPP (Operation not supported)
dup(2) = 4
fcntl(4, F_GETFL) = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR)
fstat(4, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0620, st_rdev=makedev(0x88, 0x1), ...}) = 0
write(4, "/var/lib/plocate/: Operation not"..., 43/var/lib/plocate/:
Operation not supported
) = 43
close(4) = 0
exit_group(1) = ?
+++ exited with 1 +++
