On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 01:42:54PM -0700, Kevin Locke wrote:
> Sure thing. After re-creating the broken CIFS mount on /mnt, I ran:
>
> updatedb -o /tmp/plocate.db
> locate -d /tmp/plocate.db debian_version
Great! Thanks for testing; I'll probably push out a new version shortly.
/* Steinar */
On Sun, 2022-01-30 at 21:16 +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 07:25:55PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
>> Yes, I wonder if this is the best fix for this specific issue.
>> If there's an error, there's no performance issue, since the alternative
>> is total failure;
On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 07:25:55PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> Yes, I wonder if this is the best fix for this specific issue.
> If there's an error, there's no performance issue, since the alternative
> is total failure; we can check /proc/mounts before deciding to crash out
> or nt.
On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 11:10:00AM -0700, Kevin Locke wrote:
> I think the behavior is understandable in both of the above cases,
> although it's unfortunate that a flakey mount on an excluded
> filesystem at an otherwise always empty directory causes updatedb to
> fail entirely. I'm not sure if
Thanks for the thoughtful response!
On Sun, 2022-01-30 at 18:47 +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 08:05:14AM -0700, Kevin Locke wrote:
>> 2. The error occurred on a CIFS filesystem, which is excluded by
>>PRUNEFS in /etc/updatedb.conf. Presumably it should be
On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 08:05:14AM -0700, Kevin Locke wrote:
> It turns out this the failure was due to a network issue which
> prevented contacting the host for the CIFS mount on /mnt. However,
> this presents several issues that might be worth addressing:
>
> 1. The error message contains the
Package: plocate
Version: 1.1.14-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
On a machine with a CIFS mount on /mnt, plocate-updatedb.service
failed and updatedb.plocate printed:
/: Host is down
Running updatedb.plocate -v printed:
//initrd.img.old
//vmlinuz.old
//mnt
//root
//vmlinuz
//sys
//bin
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