Re: [gentoo-user] Weird slocate behaviour - file ignored?

2009-08-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 07 August 2009 05:25:28 Stroller wrote: On 7 Mar 2009, at 12:42, Stroller wrote: I was looking for a Knoppix DVD today, and came across any anomaly whereby locate doesn't show it. It lists the CD iso in the same directory, but not the DVD right next to it, and both files seem to

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird slocate behaviour - file ignored?

2009-08-07 Thread pk
Stroller wrote: I'm seeing on a SECOND machine exactly the same thing - files larger than about 4gb are not showing up in the locate search results: $ ls -lh File.big -rw-r--r-- 1 stroller users 5.4G 2009-02-27 10:31 File.big $ sudo updatedb -v foo Password: $ grep File.big foo

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird slocate behaviour - file ignored?

2009-08-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 07 März 2009, Stroller wrote: ls -lh /testfile -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5,8G 7. Aug 11:33 /testfile slocate testfile /testfile /usr/bin/create_dirac_testfile.pl AMD64, slocate 3.1-r2, reiser4

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird slocate behaviour - file ignored?

2009-08-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 07 August 2009 11:31:22 pk wrote: Stroller wrote: I'm seeing on a SECOND machine exactly the same thing - files larger than about 4gb are not showing up in the locate search results: $ ls -lh File.big -rw-r--r-- 1 stroller users 5.4G 2009-02-27 10:31 File.big $ sudo updatedb

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird slocate behaviour - file ignored?

2009-08-07 Thread pk
Alan McKinnon wrote: My box is 64 bit. Strolelr and Peter, are yours 32 or 64 bit? Mine is 32bit. It's quite puzzling why that would matter in this case... Best regards Peter K

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird slocate behaviour - file ignored?

2009-08-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 07 August 2009, pk wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: My box is 64 bit. Strolelr and Peter, are yours 32 or 64 bit? Mine is 32bit. It's quite puzzling why that would matter in this case... Best regards Peter K just calculate the result of 2^32

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird slocate behaviour - file ignored?

2009-08-07 Thread pk
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: just calculate the result of 2^32 I know this but why would file size matter to slocate? Best regards Peter K

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird slocate behaviour - file ignored?

2009-08-07 Thread Alex Schuster
pk writes: So why does it prune files with bigger size than about 4Gb? The only thing I can think of is that my machine is 32bit... But why would slocate use file size as a factor? I can confirm the problem on my 32bit machine with default updatedb.conf. I had to emerge slocate first for

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird slocate behaviour - file ignored?

2009-08-07 Thread Stroller
On 7 Aug 2009, at 09:04, Alan McKinnon wrote: ... What are the contents of your /etc/updatedb.conf? I'm pretty sure it's stock standard, see attached. My systems are both 32-bit - early model Pentium 4s, the kind with 100mhz FSBs. I had already opened bug #280620 for this when I posted

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird slocate behaviour - file ignored?

2009-08-07 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Strollerstrol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 7 Mar 2009, at 12:42, Stroller wrote: I was looking for a Knoppix DVD today, and came across any anomaly whereby locate doesn't show it. It lists the CD iso in the same directory, but not the DVD right next to

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird slocate behaviour - file ignored?

2009-08-07 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Paul Hartmanpaul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Strollerstrol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 7 Mar 2009, at 12:42, Stroller wrote: I was looking for a Knoppix DVD today, and came across any anomaly whereby locate doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird slocate behaviour - file ignored?

2009-08-07 Thread pk
Stroller wrote: I'd be grateful if those of you who have been able to reproduce this would confirm so on b.g.o. so that the devs are aware that the problem isn't isolated to me: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=280620 Done. Best regards Peter K

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird slocate behaviour - file ignored?

2009-08-06 Thread Stroller
On 7 Mar 2009, at 12:42, Stroller wrote: I was looking for a Knoppix DVD today, and came across any anomaly whereby locate doesn't show it. It lists the CD iso in the same directory, but not the DVD right next to it, and both files seem to be read by the database when I run updatedb

[gentoo-user] Weird slocate behaviour - file ignored?

2009-03-07 Thread Stroller
I was looking for a Knoppix DVD today, and came across any anomaly whereby locate doesn't show it. It lists the CD iso in the same directory, but not the DVD right next to it, and both files seem to be read by the database when I run updatedb manually. Is there anyone who can possibly

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird slocate behaviour - file ignored?

2009-03-07 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 6:42 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: I was looking for a Knoppix DVD today, and came across any anomaly whereby locate doesn't show it. It lists the CD iso in the same directory, but not the DVD right next to it, and both files seem to be read by the

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird slocate behaviour - file ignored?

2009-03-07 Thread Stroller
On 7 Mar 2009, at 17:34, Paul Hartman wrote: On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 6:42 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: I was looking for a Knoppix DVD today, and came across any anomaly whereby locate doesn't show it. It lists the CD iso in the same directory, but not the DVD right