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Bug 2728

Summary:	updatedb (bdflush)
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	stef.pillaert
Component:	findutils	Assignee:	David Lawrence <dkl>
Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.0
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Last Closed:	1999-06-01 19:24:35 UTC	Type:	---
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Description stef.pillaert 1999-05-11 07:27:34 UTC

Don't know if this is a bug, but locate acts strange now and
then, so...

I notice that updatedb keeps on running (forever?)
"ps aux" shows:

updatedb(bdflush)

Should there be something excluded in slocate? Or is this
behaviour normal?

Thanks,

Stef.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 1999-05-11 14:35:59 UTC

that's update (bdflush), which is the kernel's cache
flushing-daemon. It doesn't have anything to do with
slocate.

Comment 2 stef.pillaert 1999-05-12 07:10:59 UTC

OOPS!! Very sorry!
But the reason I got confused was: running "updatedb" (and not
slocate, sorry) hangs. (and I thought it was launched at startup, and
confused it with update)

Should I exclude something from updatedb?
Thanks.

Stef.

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 1999-05-13 15:04:59 UTC

If you do 'strace -o output updatedb', and then look at
the output file when it hangs, where is it hanging?

Comment 4 Jeff Johnson 1999-05-15 22:33:59 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 2682 ***

Comment 5 stef.pillaert 1999-05-17 08:32:59 UTC

Well, it seems to hang when doing "chdir(".automount")". Do you want
me to give you the details given by strace?
Stef.

Comment 6 Jeff Johnson 1999-06-01 19:02:59 UTC

I've replace updatedb in slocate-1.6-1 to more perfectly imitate
the behavior of the findutils updatedb. This means that certain
directories and NFS or smb mount points will not be searched while
building the slocate database.