On Mon, Nov 06, 2023 at 03:09:48PM +0100, Alain Knaff wrote: > On 2 separate Debian 12 machines, I'm observing the following issue: > > Search for a file that obviously exists returns nothing. > > Running updatedb and then locate doesn't fix this. > > Removing /var/lib/plocate/plocate.db, and then re-running updatedb does fix > it... until the issue reappears again several days later.
I haven't had reports that this is a common occurrence, no. There were some issues with upgrades from mlocate, but nothing obvious. You could in theory dump out what's in plocate.db and see what it looks like? (E.g. through plocate '' as root.) What filesystem is this? Could there be something very wrong with timestamps? /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: https://www.sesse.net/
