Package: plocate Version: 1.1.8-2+deb11u1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: rossboy...@stanfordalumni.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 ORIGINAL PROBLEM I was using mlocate 0.26-5, but it was missing files on btrfs partitions. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=746943 describes the problem and ends with an apparent suggestion to try plocate. PLOCATE PROBLEM I installed plocate; during installation it gave messages suggesting it was doing a scan, although it seemed awfully quick. After I ran locate, and again it missed directories it should have found: locate -r "/\.hg$" DIAGNOSIS updatedb --debug-pruning -U /root -o test-plocate.db /root/btr02, a mount of the root of the btrfs file system, appears not to be excluded, which is good. locate -d test-plocate.db -r "/\.hg$" now correctly recovers lots of .hg directories under btr02. POSSIBLE RECOVERY STRATEGIES 1. Maybe if I wait for the next daily update things will be OK. 2. Delete /var/lib/plocate/plocate.db. But perhaps at least an empty file with the right permissions is required? Then rerun updatedb. 3. More thorough deletion of mlocate, e.g., /var/lib/mlocate still exists and has a database. 4. Upgrade to the later version of plocate available in backports, 1.1.13-1. But I'm not sure if the improved "upgrade from mlocate" logic will be triggered, since the initial plocate install removed the package. I would appreciate guidance on which, if any, of those approaches are advisable. COMMENTS https://sources.debian.org/src/plocate/1.1.16-1/debian/changelog/ indicates the 1.1.8-3, had significant changes in mlocate handling, including the deletion considered in option 3 above. 1.1.8-2 is the version in stable. I'm guessing that the problem is related to the prior existence of mlocate and that plocate is using mlocate's database, rather than the disk, to figure out where to scan. Certainly my diagnostic test indicates plocate can handle btrfs volumes. - -- System Information: Debian Release: 11.4 APT prefers stable-security APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-16-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages plocate depends on: ii libc6 2.31-13+deb11u3 ii libgcc-s1 10.2.1-6 ii libstdc++6 10.2.1-6 ii liburing1 0.7-3 ii libzstd1 1.4.8+dfsg-2.1 plocate recommends no packages. Versions of packages plocate suggests: ii nocache 1.1-1+b1 ii systemd-sysv 247.3-7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQFSBAEBCgA8FiEEreS674/HIyV9gBfdnAYPmOsbK2AFAmLXI+YeHHJvc3Nib3ls YW5Ac3RhbmZvcmRhbHVtbmkub3JnAAoJEJwGD5jrGytgwTkH/jV8znne/5p+RgRY TNwC5GlubDR576hCNv7Hi5/p/LaTwb4+vk0FwPAE8tt5ZkVZ+3U1aLdDt2DC5FB0 WwBjZvYyBQtpHttpery4ivAAl21t+TiD1RAOMACxXEupWZc9Wtgbbl3tvTgPY/8f KvR/f9XJEYMwEDpKp6dwJoPa41VlWoZX8blhulIDzL2VXCZ35KlqxScRM4s/iV3x qjNFt2XNIqSNPcd4M2K1Fttdbt8f6KMRcsC/tPAp1U1uYaCWVdouZdBiE2MTwwNU nvk/96P2g6ndIucucmD2QDDzHgM+rBMr7OfXemlFyYbb+uYbkmLCo/mgTO406B+G DLdPUHQ= =8QT6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
