confirmed that reconfiguring xargs with
  DEFAULT_ARG_SIZE="(127u * 1024u)"
instead of the default: (128u * 1024u)
fixes the problem.

patch to debian/rules :

--- rules.orig  2009-05-05 15:44:19.000000000 +0000
+++ rules       2009-05-05 10:54:23.000000000 +0000
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@

        dh_testdir
        # Add here commands to configure the package.
-       CFLAGS="$(CFLAGS)" ./configure $(confflags) \
+       DEFAULT_ARG_SIZE="(127u * 1024u)" CFLAGS="$(CFLAGS)" ./configure 
$(confflags) \
                --prefix=/usr --localstatedir=/var/cache/locate \
                --enable-d_type-optimisation \
                --libexecdir='$${prefix}/lib/locate' \

-- 
xargs on qemu has bad ARG_MAX
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/372121
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