Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 10169
updatedb dumps core
Last modified: 2014-03-16 22:13:03 EDT
Bug 9445 had this issue as well. ... I think it is NOT fixed ... updatedb has never worked on 6.1 for me. [root@pokey bin]# updatedb ; cat /etc/redhat-release ; rpm -q slocate <snip> socket(PF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0) = 3 connect(3, {sun_family=AF_UNIX, sun_path="/var/run/.nscd_socket"}, 110) = -1 ECONNREFUSED (Connection refused) close(3) = 0 open("/etc/nsswitch.conf", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1744, ...}) = 0 mmap(0, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40013000 read(3, "#\n# /etc/nsswitch.conf\n#\n# An ex"..., 4096) = 1744 --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) --- +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++ Red Hat Linux release 6.1 (Cartman) slocate-2.1-2 [root@pokey bin]# ls -al /etc/nsswitch.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1744 Sep 20 05:13 /etc/nsswitch.conf [root@pokey bin]#
What's your nsswitch.conf file look like; also, can you get a backtrace of a debugging version?
... looks pretty generic to me ... [root@pokey bin]# cat /etc/nsswitch.conf # # /etc/nsswitch.conf # # An example Name Service Switch config file. This file should be # sorted with the most-used services at the beginning. # # The entry '[NOTFOUND=return]' means that the search for an # entry should stop if the search in the previous entry turned # up nothing. Note that if the search failed due to some other reason # (like no NIS server responding) then the search continues with the # next entry. # # Legal entries are: # # nisplus or nis+ Use NIS+ (NIS version 3) # nis or yp Use NIS (NIS version 2), also called YP # dns Use DNS (Domain Name Service) # files Use the local files # db Use the local database (.db) files # compat Use NIS on compat mode # hesiod Use Hesiod for user lookups # [NOTFOUND=return] Stop searching if not found so far # # To use db, put the "db" in front of "files" for entries you want to be # looked up first in the databases # # Example: #passwd: db files nisplus nis #shadow: db files nisplus nis #group: db files nisplus nis passwd: files nisplus nis shadow: files nisplus nis group: files nisplus nis #hosts: db files nisplus nis dns hosts: files nisplus nis dns # Example - obey only what nisplus tells us... #services: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files #networks: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files #protocols: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files #rpc: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files #ethers: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files #netmasks: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files bootparams: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files ethers: files netmasks: files networks: files protocols: files rpc: files services: files netgroup: nisplus publickey: nisplus automount: files nisplus aliases: files nisplus ----------------------------------------------------
fixed as of the latest slocate build (2.1-3)
... the issue turned out to be a combination of the LOCALE env. variable being set, and slocate not creating a new locate.db cleanyl ...