Re: findutils -- updatedb hangs on solaris7

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,
        tnak you very much for your bug report.

On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 03:01:07PM -0500, Alexander Tait Brotman wrote:
> `updatedb` hangs or never completes.  I basically tried just running
> the program in the background (it also starts from cron).  But the program
> never exits and the locatedb is never written.  It does create a locatedb.n
> but it never seems to get a size.  I have tried pruning /proc/ and /dev/ with
> the same results.  I can't really say its a bug in findutils, but any help
> would be appreciated.  Thanks.

be sure that when you pruned /proc and /dev, you include also the standard
paths to prune:

--prunepaths='/tmp /usr/tmp /var/tmp /afs /proc /dev'

Perhaps you should experiment with smaller databases:

--localpaths=/etc

Maybe these experiments will show us something.

Another path to follow is trying the latest development version:
 It used to live at alpha.gnu.org, but currently is not available.
 You can get it from:
 ftp://ftp.du.se/pub/mirrors/sourceforge/murix/findutils-4.1.7.tar.bz2

Good luck,
        Stepan