Bug 30820

Summary:	locate no longer works
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Pierre Fortin <pfortin>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	jani.valimaa, marja11
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Pierre Fortin 2022-09-06 16:16:45 CEST

Description of problem:  This post on the discuss mailing list best describes it:

From: "Bit Twister2" (via discuss Mailing List) <discuss@ml.mageia.org>
To: discuss@ml.mageia.org
Reply-To: discuss@ml.mageia.org
Subject: Re: [discuss] locate quit working
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2022 07:56:06 -0500
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On Tue, 6 Sep 2022 07:54:45 -0400
"Pierre Fortin" (via discuss Mailing List) <discuss@ml.mageia.org>
wrote:

> On Tue, 6 Sep 2022 00:31:37 -0500 Bit Twister2 wrote:
>   
> >On Tue, 6 Sep 2022 00:23:36 -0400
> >"Pierre Fortin" (via discuss Mailing List) <discuss@ml.mageia.org>
> >wrote:
> >    
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> locate on Cauldron(mga9) was working fine a few weeks ago. Now, I'm
> >> getting:
> >> $ locate rsyncd
> >> /var/lib/plocate/plocate.db: No such file or directory
> >> 
> >> plocate is installed. Re-installing does not help; after re-install
> >> /var/lib/plocate only contains CACHEDIR.TAG
> >> 
> >> Should I bug this or am I missing something?      
> >
> >I can not install the plocate package via mcc.
> >All I can find is mlocate.
> >Installed it, ran updatedb. and locate has no problems running.
> >    
> Hmm...  are you running mga8?   

Hehe, pretty sure. Was a clean network install using
 Sep  5 20:28 Mageia-Cauldron-netinstall-nonfree-x86_64.iso

# cat /etc/release
Mageia release 9 (Cauldron) for x86_64

>  I don't see mlocate in mga9, only
> plocate...   

# cat /etc/release
Mageia release 9 (Cauldron) for x86_64

$ get_src_rpm updatedb
  Looked for    : updatedb
  Using         : /usr/bin/updatedb
  Installed rpm : mlocate-0.26-14.mga8
  rpm short name: mlocate
  Source rpm   : mlocate-0.26-14.mga8.src.rpm
  Information  : https://pagure.io/mlocate
  Packager     : umeabot <umeabot>
  Summary      : A utility for finding files by name via a central
database 
 $ Will open a bug...  Thanks.

 And I thought it funny I could see plocate rpm on prinction mirror but
 could not find it in MCC .

 $ grep plocate *009*idx
 core-0009.0.x86_64.idx:plocate-1.1.15-1.mga9.x86_64.rpm 155K
17-Aug-2022 14:01 

 Frap my fault. My set_mirror script has a bug, it set mga8 media, not
cauldron. removed mlocate, set cauldron media, installed polcate, and
locate fails. 

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Comment 1 Jani Välimaa 2022-09-06 18:23:45 CEST

As a workaround run updatedb by hand as root.

Looks like plocate-updatedb.timer isn't enabled/started by default after install to update plocate db daily.

CC: (none) => jani.valimaa

Comment 2 Pierre Fortin 2022-09-06 18:38:01 CEST

updatedb resolved the error
Then I started plocate-updatedb.time via mcc

Is "disabled" correct blow?

$ systemctl status plocate-updatedb.timer
● plocate-updatedb.timer - Update the plocate database daily
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/plocate-updatedb.timer; disabled; preset: disabled)
     Active: active (waiting) since Tue 2022-09-06 12:33:21 EDT; 2min 8s ago
      Until: Tue 2022-09-06 12:33:21 EDT; 2min 8s ago
    Trigger: Wed 2022-09-07 02:07:51 EDT; 13h left
   Triggers: ● plocate-updatedb.service

Sep 06 12:33:21 pf.pfortin.com systemd[1]: Started Update the plocate database daily.


At least, it ran once and I can run updatedb manually as a workaround...

Comment 3 Marja Van Waes 2022-09-06 19:26:53 CEST

Do we want it to be enabled by default? Most users don't use locate. Those who do use it, will most likely first want to edit PRUNEPATHS etc. before running updatedb for the first time.

CC: (none) => marja11

Comment 4 Jani Välimaa 2022-09-06 19:38:19 CEST

Since mageia-release-9-0.24.mga9 plocate-updatedb.timer is enabled and started by default after plocate install [1]. Same way as mlocate-updatedb.timer is or was.

Default and sane updatedb.conf originating from mlocate is also shipped with plocate.

[1] https://svnweb.mageia.org/packages?view=revision&revision=1884582

Comment 5 Marja Van Waes 2022-09-06 19:44:33 CEST

(In reply to Jani Välimaa from comment #4)
> Since mageia-release-9-0.24.mga9 plocate-updatedb.timer is enabled and
> started by default after plocate install [1]. Same way as
> mlocate-updatedb.timer is or was.
> 
> Default and sane updatedb.conf originating from mlocate is also shipped with
> plocate.
> 
> [1] https://svnweb.mageia.org/packages?view=revision&revision=1884582

Thanks.

Closing as fixed, then.

@ Pierre

Feel free to reopen if needed.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED