Bryan Irvine wrote: > > As the errormessage suggests there is a character in a > > filename somewhere on my filesystem which updatedb doesn't > > dig. > > > > I just can't find that file. > > IIRC there used to be a bug with files that had a % char in the > name.
Yes I found that report. > Try using find to look for other special chars if that turns up > nothing. That's what I did, and I didn't find any too suspicious character after tr'ing away all the normal characters. I think I will start adjusting the prune path as another method. At least I can continue working without presure on this problem since I wrote my own simple locate implementation. # Han
