Vivek J. Patankar wrote:
Peter Reed wrote:
On Saturday 28 July 2007 6:09:50 pm Vivek J. Patankar wrote:
Peter Reed wrote:
I am receiving this error when I try to use the command updatedb: updatedb: src/updatedb.c:721: scan_cwd: Assertion `name_size > 1' failed. Aborted however locate does seem to work although how old the database is unknown any help with this would be appreciated.
It seems that I am also having the same problem. I ran updatedb in verbose mode and the error comes with the same folder everytime. A listing of the folder gives strange output. Output from my terminal below.
/sys/module/nousb/parameters updatedb: src/updatedb.c:721: scan_cwd: Assertion `name_size > 1' failed. Aborted [root@marvin parameters]# file /sys/module/nousb/parameters /sys/module/nousb/parameters: directory [root@marvin parameters]# cd /sys/module/nousb/parameters [root@marvin parameters]# ls -l ls: cannot access : No such file or directory total 0 -????????? ? ? ? ? ? [root@marvin parameters]#
I tried rpm -qf to determine which package creates the folder but it says that the file is not owned by the package.
Can you run updatedb -v and check if the result is similar/identical?
Yes this is the same place my run of updatedb is exiting. Same error as you with the same directory. Peter
Can anybody else on the list verify this? What I would like to know is the contents of the directory. Listing the directory gives me strange output.
The /sys file system is not a real file system - it is created as part of udev, and contains information about hardware and drivers on the running system. updatedb should not be checking this tree at all. I wounder if /sys should be added to the PRUNEPATHS list in /etc/updatedb.conf - that way the directory would be skipped.
Mikkel