On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 08:28:52PM +0100, Matthias Kilian spoke thusly:
> On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 12:39:57PM -0600, Denny White wrote:
> > I know from past experience and doing a lot of online searching
> > that this problem crops up from time to time. Usually someone
> > just did a new install and doesn't know the locate.datebase
> > isn't created by default.
>
> There's an empty /var/db/locate.database in etcXX.tgz. Didn't you
> install etcXX.tgz?
>
> Ciao,
> Kili
Okay, maybe I worded my question wrong. Sure, I installed all
sets including etcXX.tgz. Regardless, I'm still trying to solve
the problem of the update failing now. As I said before, I've
tried to check every conceivable thing I could come up with
that might be causing it and am still coming up emtpy. Weird.
And, IIRC, I did have to get it kicked off originally manually.
Just for fun I just copied the original empty file to /var/db/
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Dec 28 15:16 locate.database
and ran weekly again. Did a listing from another term to show
it had started and was trying:
-rw------- 1 root wheel 0 Dec 28 15:19 locate.database.Hojrmm6565
After about 10 seconds it failed again. I ran top to watch how
much load it was creating, not that it ever came anywhere near
what it does while kernel or userland building, but just to see
at what point it failed in case it would help someone else who
was trying to help with the problem.
18714 root 57 0 4324K 5912K run - 0:10 31.49% perl
That probably won't help but I'm at the 'shooting in the dark'
point here. For the record, here's the locate portion of weekly
to show that nothing's been altered. I decreased the indentation
to keep within 72 characters:
echo ""
if [ -f /var/db/locate.database ]; then
TMP=`mktemp /var/db/locate.database.XXXXXXXXXX`
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
trap 'rm -f $TMP; exit 1' 0 1 15
echo "Rebuilding locate database:"
UPDATEDB="/usr/libexec/locate.updatedb"
echo "${UPDATEDB} --fcodes=- --tmpdir=${TMPDIR:-/var/tmp}" | \
nice -5 su -m nobody 2>/dev/null 1>$TMP
if [ -s "$TMP" ]; then
chmod 444 $TMP
chown root:wheel $TMP
mv -f $TMP /var/db/locate.database
else
echo "Not installing locate database; zero size"
fi
else
echo "Not rebuilding locate database; can't create temp file"
fi
else
echo "Not rebuilding locate database; no /var/db/locate.database"
fi
I'm just wondering, since perl moved to a new number if something's
changed there that's causing the problem. At that point I wouldn't
know what to do. I did check ulimit to see what the settings were.
As a user I get
time(cpu-seconds) unlimited
file(blocks) unlimited
coredump(blocks) unlimited
data(kbytes) 524288
stack(kbytes) 4096
lockedmem(kbytes) 166098
memory(kbytes) 497108
nofiles(descriptors) 128
processes 64
and as root
time(cpu-seconds) unlimited
file(blocks) unlimited
coredump(blocks) unlimited
data(kbytes) 1048576
stack(kbytes) 8192
lockedmem(kbytes) 166098
memory(kbytes) 497108
nofiles(descriptors) 128
processes 1310
Once again, shooting in the dark.
Denny White
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