hello, *

I am running Slack 12.1, and I try to do an updatedb, which never seems to
finish. Last time I had a similar problem, one of my file systems was
corrupted. However, when I checked this morning, all file systems were
clean.
Suggestion, anyone?

jjg <jjge@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> I am running Slack 12.1, and I try to do an updatedb, which never seems to
> finish.

You could try "strace -p" on the pid of updatedb to see what it is doing.

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On Sun, 29 Jun 2008, jjg wrote:

> hello, *
>
> I am running Slack 12.1, and I try to do an updatedb, which never seems to
> finish. Last time I had a similar problem, one of my file systems was
> corrupted. However, when I checked this morning, all file systems were
> clean.
> Suggestion, anyone?
>
The first time after the install, it sure seems to take time. Of course,
later it usually runs as a cron job late at night so you don't notice.

Did you have any DVDs or CDs mounted at the time? I seem to recall
doing that at least once, and it would add to the time since it's
territory that hasn't been databased yet.

Michael

On Sun, 29 Jun 2008, Michael Black wrote:

>
> On Sun, 29 Jun 2008, jjg wrote:
>
>> hello, *
>>
>> I am running Slack 12.1, and I try to do an updatedb, which never seems to
>> finish. Last time I had a similar problem, one of my file systems was
>> corrupted. However, when I checked this morning, all file systems were
>> clean.
>> Suggestion, anyone?
>>
> The first time after the install, it sure seems to take time. Of course,
> later it usually runs as a cron job late at night so you don't notice.
>
> Did you have any DVDs or CDs mounted at the time? I seem to recall
> doing that at least once, and it would add to the time since it's territory
> that hasn't been databased yet.


That shouldn't matter unless updatedb.conf is botched up, by default
updatedb will not look at NFS or CD/DVD filesystems.

If in doubt, add something like /media and /mnt into PRUNEPATHS


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On 06/29/08 20:04, jjg wrote:
> hello, *
>
> I am running Slack 12.1, and I try to do an updatedb, which never
> seems to finish. Last time I had a similar problem, one of my file
> systems was corrupted. However, when I checked this morning, all
> file systems were clean. Suggestion, anyone?

Do you have an NFS mounted? If the remote machine is not responding
updatedb lasts forever.

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Hallo, jjg,

Du meintest am 29.06.08:

> I am running Slack 12.1, and I try to do an updatedb, which never
> seems to finish. Last time I had a similar problem, one of my file
> systems was corrupted. However, when I checked this morning, all file
> systems were clean.
> Suggestion, anyone?

Maybe you use the original "/etc/updatedb.conf" which uses wrong
delimiters for "PRUNEPATH" ans "FSPATH".

"man slocate" and "man updatedb" show that "slocate" needs "," as
delimiter, not " ".

Viele Gruesse
Helmut

"Ubuntu" - an African word, meaning "Slackware is too hard for me".

On Mon, 30 Jun 2008, Helmut Hullen wrote:

>
> Hallo, jjg,
>
> Du meintest am 29.06.08:
>
>> I am running Slack 12.1, and I try to do an updatedb, which never
>> seems to finish. Last time I had a similar problem, one of my file
>> systems was corrupted. However, when I checked this morning, all file
>> systems were clean.
>> Suggestion, anyone?
>
> Maybe you use the original "/etc/updatedb.conf" which uses wrong
> delimiters for "PRUNEPATH" ans "FSPATH".
>
> "man slocate" and "man updatedb" show that "slocate" needs "," as
> delimiter, not " ".

I use defaults on my file servers and network backup servers and
PRUNEFS PRUNEPATHS both work fine without commas, else my update would
still be running when it was time to start again.


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Helmut Hullen wrote:

> Hallo, jjg,
>
> Du meintest am 29.06.08:
>
>> I am running Slack 12.1, and I try to do an updatedb, which never
>> seems to finish. Last time I had a similar problem, one of my file
>> systems was corrupted. However, when I checked this morning, all file
>> systems were clean.
>> Suggestion, anyone?
>
> Maybe you use the original "/etc/updatedb.conf" which uses wrong
> delimiters for "PRUNEPATH" ans "FSPATH".
>
> "man slocate" and "man updatedb" show that "slocate" needs "," as
> delimiter, not " ".

Well, I changed the spaces into commas, but updatedb still hangs ;-)

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jjg wrote:

> hello, *
>
> I am running Slack 12.1, and I try to do an updatedb, which never seems to
> finish. Last time I had a similar problem, one of my file systems was
> corrupted. However, when I checked this morning, all file systems were
> clean.
> Suggestion, anyone?

Update: in ps ax I see the process running updatedb in state D
(uninterruptable sleep). It never wakes up, that seems clear.
Worse yet, if I do a shutdown now -r the system restarts allright, but it
does not seem to bother to unmount the file systems...

jjg <jjge@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Update: in ps ax I see the process running updatedb in state D
> (uninterruptable sleep). It never wakes up, that seems clear.

So it is waiting for disk. Do you see any disk related error messages from
dmesg?

regards Henrik
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