From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: Hello, I am using Fedora Core 3. It a fresh installation. I have mount -t vfat my windows fat drive o /mnt/windows. Then i wanted to search for a file using locate and told me to type: updatedb. I did that. Then i got segmentation fault. Tried again the command updatedb but stayed there for 10 minutes, then i close it. [root@localhost ~]# mount /dev/hda7 on / type ext3 (rw) none on /proc type proc (rw) none on /sys type sysfs (rw) none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) /dev/hda5 on /boot type ext3 (rw) none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw) sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw) nfsd on /proc/fs/nfsd type nfsd (rw) /dev/hda1 on /mnt/windows type vfat (rw) ------ As i see, it have problem with vfat so i tried updatedb -f vfat and it worked succesfully. [root@localhost ~]# updatedb -f vfat [root@localhost ~]# Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): [root@localhost ~]# updatedb --version Secure Locate 2.7 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: run updatedb with a vfat partition mounted Actual Results: updatedb -f vfat works succesfully Additional info:
Hello, using updatedb over vfat works fine in the limited testing I'm able to do now; if this is still reproducible, could you please get a stack trace of the segfault? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/StackTraces describes how to obtain a stack trace; if you are using the FC3 slocate-2.7-12, you will need the debuginfo package available e.g. at http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/debug/slocate-debuginfo-2.7-12.i386.rpm After you get the stack trace, please attach it to this report and we will hopefully be able to find the bug and fix it. Thanks.
Please reopen this report if you can provide the requested data. Thank you.