Re: [TCLUG:11531] locate and updatedb

[Christopher Palmer <reid@pconline.com>]

On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:

> I had a RH 5.1 box with exactly the same symptoms. locate segfaulted
> and cored every time.
> reinstalling the package (actually upgrading it, in my case) fixed it.
> 
> why this happened in the first place, I *really* want to know.

Maybe Scott Dieman came in and yelled at your machine after hours.
Repeatedly being told that Debian is better, RPM sucks and Red Hat is
Microsoft can hurt a developing RHL 5.1 system's self-esteem.

;)


-- Chris

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