Bug 3526

Summary:	Problem with slocate on 6.0 sparc machines?
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	ted
Component:	crontabs	Assignee:	Crutcher Dunnavant <crutcher>
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Priority:	high
Version:	6.0
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Hardware:	sparc
OS:	Linux
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Description ted 1999-06-17 13:05:14 UTC

I have been noticing on my little SparcClassic that the
daily slocate processes are never exiting.  I have not been
able to figure out why yet.  If I leave my machine running
for a long time, I end up with may of these slocate
processes in a R state.


Slocate is not listed in the component list.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 1999-06-17 14:40:59 UTC

what does 'strace <pid of slocate>' say?

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 1999-06-17 16:35:59 UTC

Um, that's 'strace -p <pid>', of course.

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Comment 3 ted 1999-06-18 19:16:59 UTC

OK, more specifics.

slocate goes into a loop is you have cdimages mounted on a loopback
device mounted somewhere in the path.  I had 3 cdimages mounted as
/mnt/virtcd0, /mnt/virtcd1, and /mnt/virtcd2 they contained
respectively RedHat6.0 for Intel, Redhat 6.0 for Sparc, and Redhat 6.0
SRPMS.  All cd images were created by me from the freely available
files.

If anyone wants to simulate this problem, I could upload the cd
images.

My work-around was to change the /etc/cron.daily/slocate.cron file to
add the /mnt to the excluded directories.

Ted Serreyn

Comment 4 Bill Nottingham 1999-06-18 19:51:59 UTC

Hm. I mount an iso image here on a sparc, and it still
seems to work OK. I suppose I could try it on an older
sparc and see what that does...

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Comment 5 Bill Nottingham 1999-08-31 17:08:59 UTC

We still haven't been able to reproduce this.
Try upgrading to the latest slocate ; if it still fails, reopen
this bug.