hi
all,
after doing a number
of rpm updates to my system, updatedb appears to have broken. i have posted this
problem now twice to this list without any response whatsoever, but lets see if
my latest discovery helps spur some answers on!
i have finally
discovered what is breaking it, but don't know what to do about it.
i went into
/var/lib/slocate and deleted everything there - so basically a clean
slate.
i ran
updatedb
it thought for a
long time
then got the broken
pipe
and ls
/var/lib/slocate showed that it had successfully created
/var/lib/slocate.db.tmp
i did a mv
slocate.db.tmp slocate.db
and i could locate
things perfectly.
so it appears that
the broken pipe occurs when slocate is trying to move slocate.db.tmp ->
slocate.db. and this even happens when /var/lib/slocate.db doesn't
exist.
so, for the final
time - any suggestions?
