On Sat, Apr 09, 2022 at 07:50:09PM -0400, Ron Murray wrote: > Steinar, you may be right about problems with the upgrade. I started > looking into this earlier today because 'locate' couldn't find files > that I knew were present in the filesystem. Based on what you said, I > checked plocate.db and siscovered that it hadn't been updated since > December 30. The files I was looking for had, of course, been added > since then.
That's strange; do you know if the updatedb.plocate command was ever actually run? Did it output anything to the error log? I've tried reproducing this by installing mlocate and then upgrading, but I can't get it to break. > I also note that there's still a 'locate' in /etc/cron.daily, which > runs '/usr/bin/updatedb.findutils'. Should these be still on the > sysytem? Could they be interfering with plocate? No, it's entirely independent. /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: https://www.sesse.net/
