Package: plocate
Version: 1.1.18-1
Severity: important
Tags: upstream
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Dear Maintainer,
I am trying to get plocate to run on an old ARM-based NAS running Debian
bookworm. Building the database with updatedb works fine, but plocate
command itself blocks forever without giving any results back.
I attached gdb to the process, and the source of the problem appears to
be related to the use of io_uring.
Trying to understand what is going on, I ran plocate under strace as
root. Surprisingly, it ran without blocking.
The same behaviour was observed after self-compiling the latest plocate
(v1.1.21), which is why I am also tagging the issue for the upstream.
More details on the observed behaviour of plocate:
* blocks waiting some io_uring operation when run directly as root/user
* does not not block when run under strace as root
* reports an error for not being able to access the database when run
under strace as user (which sounds like the expected behaviour)
I recompiled the latest plocate with io_uring support disabled in
meson.build, and the program worked fine. Operation may be slower this
way, but at least it works.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.4
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500,
'stable-debug'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: armel (armv5tel)
Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-17-marvell (UP)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages plocate depends on:
ii adduser 3.134
ii libatomic1 12.2.0-14
ii libc6 2.36-9+deb12u3
ii libgcc-s1 12.2.0-14
ii libstdc++6 12.2.0-14
ii liburing2 2.3-3
ii libzstd1 1.5.4+dfsg2-5
plocate recommends no packages.
Versions of packages plocate suggests:
ii powermgmt-base 1.37
ii systemd-sysv 252.19-1~deb12u1
