Debian bug report logs - #702, boring messages

Subject: Bug#702: locate crash with large db
Reply-To: Ernie Elu <ernie@tinny.eis.net.au>, debian-bugs@pixar.com
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From: Ernie Elu <ernie@tinny.eis.net.au>
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My first bug report so it may me a bit rough.

The problem in a nutshell is that locate <filename> crashes with a
Segmentation Fault when the loacate database is quite large, mine is over
500k. The problem does not occur if you run updatedb --old-format on the
same system. The problem also does not occur if I unmount a couple of drives
and run updatedb (no flags) again, thus producing a smaller database.

I have tried this on 2 systems that have about 2gb of data (news servers)
and the both do it "out of the box". My work around has been to patch the
/etc/cron.daily/find script to include the --old-format flag for updatedb.


I am running:-

Debian 0.93R5

kernel 1.2.1 as shipped
libc.so.4.6.26


All are fresh installs yesterday.


- Ernie.
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From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
To: Ernie Elu <ernie@tinny.eis.net.au>
Subject: Bug#702: Acknowledgement (was: locate crash with large db)
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