On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Sheldon Lee Wen wrote:
> Axalon wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Oden Eriksson wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > > On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Bug Hunter wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > I looked in the archives for this, but can't find it. I think someone on
> > > > > this list brought it up in the past.
> > > > >
> > > > > I've installed some updates, and now updatedb hangs when running, and
> > > > > locate fails due to a missing database.
> > > > >
> > > > > does anyone remember what fixes this?
> > > > >
> > > > > bug
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Try unmounting your vfat partitions
> > >
> > > I wonder what differs from RH6.0 ?
> > >
> > > I have absolutely no problems with this as I had running Mandrake
> > > 6.0...
> > >
> > >
> >
> > I can reproduce the hang on both Redhat 6.0 and Mandrake 6.0
>
> Have you tried reinstalling the application? Id say try SRPM.
> Looks like the database file is gone or it can't find it.
>
Reinstalling slocate isn't going to help it will just hang on the vfat
partition again and not create the db. You can give slocate a -HUP and it
will continue with the rest of the drives.
