Can't updatedb

Emmett Culley emmett at webengineer.com
Fri Sep 7 22:19:49 UTC 2007


Alan M. Evans wrote:
> updatedb is failing for me:
> 
>         [root at skyhawk ~]# updatedb
>         updatedb: src/updatedb.c:601: scan_cwd: Assertion `name_size > 1' failed.
>         Aborted
>         [root at skyhawk ~]# 
> 
> Tried again with -v and it appears to be choking on:
> 
>         /sys/module/nousb/parameters
>         updatedb: src/updatedb.c:601: scan_cwd: Assertion `name_size > 1' failed.
>         Aborted
>         [root at skyhawk ~]# cd /sys/module/nousb/parameters/
>         [root at skyhawk parameters]# ll 
>         total 0
>         ?--------- ? ? ? ?            ? 
>         [root at skyhawk parameters]# rm *
>         rm: cannot lstat `': No such file or directory
>         [root at skyhawk parameters]# 
> 
> What can I do about this? FC6, by the way.
> 

I added /sys/module/nousb to PRUNEPATHS variable in /etc/updatedb.conf.




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