Package: locate Version: 4.2.31-4 Followup-For: Bug #245874 I had the exact same problem. As a result, I haven't been able to use locate for a long time, until I finally found the time to dig into this. All this time, locate was run from cron, producing no errors and an empty database (Causing 'locate' to return nothing for whatever query).
At the very least this problem should be mentioned in the Debian.README file. There is a work around for it. By default, 'sort' is using /var/tmp, which is 1GB large on my system. If that partition runs full, locate silently fails. If you have a larger partition that can be used for temporary files (ie, /tmp), you can add "export TMPDIR=/tmp" to /etc/updatedb.findutils.cron.local and it will use that. However, at least as important is the fact that a temp file of several GIGA bytes is necessary at all. I can imagine that not everyone has a 10 GB tmp partition like me, especially not on encrypted systems (where also tmp has to be encrypted) a tmpfs is being used that uses the (encrypted) swap, normally. Perhaps I have more files than others, but it's that special. I'm just using my PC to develop open source stuff. I had /etc/cron.daily/locate running while typing this, and it's currently at: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on tmpfs 11G 2.7G 8.1G 26% /tmp tmpfs 1.1G 0 1.1G 0% /var/tmp 2.7 GB and growing! I hope it will be done before 11G, or I'd start to expect something else to wrong :/ (before starting it, /tmp was using 33 MB). -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages locate depends on: ii findutils 4.2.31-4 utilities for finding files--find, ii libc6 2.7-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries locate recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
