On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 07:06, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > Why? > > I've never had this behavior before out of a Mandrake setup. > > As root, I can type in "updatedb" at a shell, and it will run for 2-3 mins, as > per usual, then suddenly, monitor goes black, and machine spontaneously > reboots. > > I have an 80 gig HD. > > and usually...some kind of damage is done. > > This folks, is off a fresh (re)install after the last episode caused major > damage. I figured it was doing it then because the db was corrupted or > something. > > Anyone have any ideas? This is terrible. :-(
Dark, Sounds like somehow slocate didn't install right. Are there any error messages in /var/log/messages or possibly but less likely /var/log/kernel/errors left behind. Also what is in /var/lib/slocate? you may need to remove what is there (or move it aside) before trying, if you dare, again. (btw mine works.. not that this helps you at all.) James
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