On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:15 AM, L. V. Lammert <l...@omnitec.net> wrote: > It was truly a shame that so many people here prefer to start their > flamethrowers rather than offer any sort of constructive information! In > this case, THE PROBLEM HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AND IT WOULD MOST LIKELY NOT HAVE > BEEN FIXED WITH A NORMAL UPGRADE! !! !!! !!!! > > Before reading further, please REREAD the statement above. > > As it turns out, there WERE some folks here that had excellent suggestions > [privately], and that helped significantly in isolating the problem.
So, posting to the list worked ;-) > Thanks > to ____ who got me back on topic and reminded me of this possible issue, .. > and ____ who suggested the simplest solution: > > find / ! \( -fstype ffs -or -fstype ufs -or -fstype ext2fs \) -prune -or > -path /tmp -prune -or -path /var/tmp -prune -or -path /usr/tmp -prune -or > -print > /tmp/locate test > > Running the find separately identified the file system problem, and it was > easily fixed as a result. > > Lee
