Same issue on a 15.10 upgraded to 16.04: e0101450@bhaskark:/Distrib/Ubuntu$ locate abc.def locate: can not open `/var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db': Permission denied e0101450@bhaskark:/Distrib/Ubuntu$ ls -l /var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db -rw-r----- 1 root mlocate 25974609 May 16 09:21 /var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db e0101450@bhaskark:/Distrib/Ubuntu$ ls -ld /var/lib/mlocate/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 24 May 16 09:21 /var/lib/mlocate/ e0101450@bhaskark:/Distrib/Ubuntu$
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