tags 301632 fixed-in-experimental
thanks
On 2005-03-30 Joachim Berdal Haga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Andreas Metzler wrote:
[..]
> This is my /etc/mtab. This one fails. Notice the placement of the "/foo 
> /bar" line; above (and including) this position it fails, below it works 
> fine.

>   /dev/hda1 / ext3 rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro,commit=20 0 0
>   proc /proc proc rw 0 0
>   sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0
>   devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
>   tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
>   /dev /dev/.static/dev unknown rw,bind 0 0
>   /foo /bar ext3 rw 0 0
>   none /dev tmpfs rw,size=10M,mode=0755 0 0
>   usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0

> Now for the command sequence:

>   [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~# locate initrd | wc -l
>   35
>   [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~# /etc/cron.weekly/find  ; echo $?
>   0
>   [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~# locate initrd | wc -l
>   1

This did not work for me. I did not manage to truncate the db by
running the cron-job. (Probably due to some 

>   [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~# locate initrd
>   /boot/initrd.gz
>   [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~# updatedb
>   /usr/bin/find: error in /etc/mtab: /bar: No such file or directory
>   [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~#
[...]

This worked. The db I end up with after running updatedb directly is
indeed incomplete.

The good news is that this seems to be fixed in 4.2.20. Could you
perhaps verify this, by temporarily installing 4.2.20-1 from
experimental?
                      thanks, cu andreas
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