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Bug 3164

Summary:	slocate hangs on mounted VFAT partitions
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Adam Spiers <redhat>
Component:	crontabs	Assignee:	Crutcher Dunnavant <crutcher>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.0	CC:	rip6
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Hardware:	i386
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Description Adam Spiers 1999-05-30 22:04:33 UTC

slocate hangs on mounted VFAT partitions.
Reproduce via:

1. mount a VFAT partition
2. run /usr/bin/slocate -u -e
"/tmp,/var/tmp,/usr/tmp,/afs,/net,/proc" -v
   (as typically run from /etc/cron.daily, but with an
   extra -v option to see what's going on)
3. watch it get stuck and eat CPU when it encounters the
   VFAT partition

Please note!
The Redhat 6.0 Bugzilla is missing the slocate component,
preventing me from logging this properly.  I suspect that
many of the RPMs added to Redhat since 5.2 (the
enlightenment RPMs are another example) are missing from
this Bugzilla config.  I will submit this problem separately
...

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 1999-06-01 19:23:59 UTC

Fixed (by excluding vfat in cron.daily) in slocate-1.6-1.

Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 1999-06-05 16:01:59 UTC

*** Bug 3280 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

slocate launched from cron or from commandline hangs
with vfat filesystems mounted.

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 1999-06-14 18:42:59 UTC

Can you update to the latest slocate version and try
it *without* excluding VFAT partitions?

Comment 4 Bill Nottingham 1999-06-15 14:45:59 UTC

Moreover, I can't reproduce this on a VFAT partition here,
with slocate-1.4

Comment 5 Bill Nottingham 1999-06-16 16:59:59 UTC

If you can get it stuck, what does an strace
of the slocate process say?

Comment 6 Adam Spiers 1999-06-19 17:48:59 UTC

Damn, I can't reproduce it any more.  I've reincluded /mnt/C
in the slocate cron job in the hope that it will stop working;
if so, I'll get you an strace.

Comment 7 Jeff Johnson 1999-07-01 15:10:59 UTC

This bug appears to be resolved. Please reopen if I'm wrong.