Description of problem: In both Fedora 7 and now in 8 the default updatedb.conf file contains a typo. THe exluded directories list contains /sfs as an excluded directory, but /sys is the intended excluded target. (Easy to tell because there is no /sfs directory, and if updatedb wanders into /sys it fails, always.) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Easily. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Fedora 7 or 8 and run `updatedb` as root. OR 2. Inspect /etc/updatedb.conf in a freshly installed system. Actual results: until /sfs is replaced with /sys updatedb fails. Expected results: updatedb should run without errors. Additional info: This is easy to fix, and easy to find references to in Google, but it might be frustrating to newbies.... I've listed the x86_64 platform because that's where I've seen this, in both 7 and 8, it could well be in the others, too, but I haven't looked.
Thanks for your report. As https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=242715#c21 says, /sfs is separate from /sys. The invalid dentry in /sys should be fixed in the kernel, adding /sys is just a work-around. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 242715 ***