Package: plocate
Version: 1.1.3-1 and 1.1.4-1
Severity: important
Steinar,
updatedb fails with:
/var/lib/plocate/: Operation not supported
However, writing to a database in a different directory works fine.
Please see the transcript below.
Thank you!
Daniel Lewart
Urbana, Illinois
---
$ uname -a
Linux debian 5.10.0-3-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.13-1 (2021-02-06) x86_64
GNU/Linux
$ sudo updatedb
/var/lib/plocate/: Operation not supported
$ sudo updatedb -o /tmp/plocate.db
$ ls -l /tmp/plocate.db
-rw-r----- 1 root plocate 4590032 Feb 17 21:00 /tmp/plocate.db
$ sudo mv /tmp/plocate.db /var/lib/plocate/
$ locate plocate
/etc/cron.daily/plocate
/etc/systemd/system/timers.target.wants/plocate-updatedb.timer
/usr/bin/plocate
...
