On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Bos, P.G.J. - SPLXM <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm experiencing a sort error when I run updatedb, from the > findutils-4.4.0-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm
We don't release RPMs, just source distributions, so I have no idea what that file could contain. On the other hand we know what's in the source distributions, since (a) we release them and (b) it's recorded in the git repository. So if you retest with the source distribution we may at least have eliminated some variables. > any suggestion? > > => # /usr/local/bin/updatedb > sort: 0653-657 A write error occurred while sorting. That's a pretty vague error from your system sort program. Perhaps the "0653-657" indicates some more specific condition, but I have no AIX system here on which I might check. But the first thing I would check is the possibility that you ran out of disk space, either wherever sort writes its temporary files, or for its output files. If neither of these turns out to be the case, try using GNU sort; it might give a more helpful error message. Thanks, James.
