Bug 87405

Summary:	Segmentation fault in 'updatedb' from cron
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Michal Jaegermann <michal>
Component:	slocate	Assignee:	Thomas Woerner <twoerner>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description Michal Jaegermann 2003-03-26 18:05:02 UTC

Description of problem:

On one (Athlon) machine I see recently pretty consistently these:

/etc/cron.daily/slocate.cron: line 3:  9934 Segmentation fault
/usr/bin/updatedb -f "nfs,smbfs,ncpfs,proc,devpts" -e
"/tmp,/var/tmp,/usr/tmp,/afs,/net"

mailed by cron.  I _think_ that this really coincides with a recent
update to kernel-2.4.18-27.7.x.

In /etc/cron.daily/slocate.cron I commented out
"renice +19 -p $$ >/dev/null 2>&1" line and this appears to help.
At least I did not a message like above from the last night where
they were otherwise a fixture.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
slocate-2.6-1

How reproducible:
I do not observe that on other machines which are somewhat related
both hardware-wise and software-wise.  A different memory layout?

Comment 1 Boris Folgmann 2003-10-20 17:59:04 UTC

Today I received a similar mail from my cron daemon.

/etc/cron.daily/slocate.cron:

/etc/cron.daily/slocate.cron: line 3:  7209 Segmentation fault     
/usr/bin/updatedb -f "nfs,smbfs,ncpfs,proc,devpts" -e
"/tmp,/var/tmp,/usr/tmp,/afs,/net"
/usr/bin/run-parts: line 36:  7275 Segmentation fault      $i 2>&1
      7276                       | awk -v "progname=$i" 'progname {
				   print progname ":\n"
				   progname="";
			       }
			       { print; }'
/usr/bin/run-parts: line 36:  7444 Done                    $i 2>&1
      7445 Segmentation fault      | awk -v "progname=$i" 'progname {
				   print progname ":\n"
				   progname="";
			       }
			       { print; }'

It's slocate-2.6-8 on a RH9 system with kernel 2.4.20-20.9.

Comment 2 Thomas Woerner 2004-10-15 18:47:13 UTC

Please verify this with a newer version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux or
Fedora Core and reopen it against the new version if it still occurs.

Closing as "not a bug" for now.