after upgrading slocate-2.7-r3 to slocate-2.7-r4, this problem appears: [root@Genbox:bin]$updatedb fatal error: updatedb: create_db(): chdir: No such file or directory Issueing "find /" works ok, so there is no problem browsing the system. I dont have NFS. the contents of /var/lib/slocate: [root@Genbox:slocate]$la /var/lib/slocate/ total 4332 drwxr-x--- 2 root slocate 4096 Jan 10 15:32 . drwxr-xr-x 30 root root 4096 Dec 27 08:07 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root slocate 0 Jan 10 15:28 .keep -rw-r----- 1 root slocate 4412782 Jan 10 15:32 slocate.db Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. upgrade to the mentioned slocate version 2. issue updatedb manually or with cron 3. updatedb fails with the mentioned error Actual Results: [root@Genbox:bin]$updatedb fatal error: updatedb: create_db(): chdir: No such file or directory Expected Results: just update the db and say no error Portage 2.0.49-r20 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r3, 2.6.1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.1 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 1800+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fstack-protector" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /opt/glftpd/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share /config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fstack-protector" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache cvs sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.linux.no/" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X aalib alsa apm avi berkdb bindist cdr crypt directfb emacs encode fbcon foomaticdb gd gd-external gdbm gg i gif gpm gtk gtk2 imlib ipv6 java jikes jpeg ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mpeg mysql ncurses oggvorbis ope ngl oss pam pdflib perl php pic png pnp python quicktime readline ruby sasl sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd ti ff truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
Added for interest in reiserfs and this bug - I'm using 2.6.1 and can confirm that the problem still exists.
please run `updatedb -v` and `strace -f -echdir updatedb` and post the output
remove contents of /var/lib/slocate/ (need to be root) # rm -fr /var/lib/slocate/* and re-run updatedb -u # updatedb -u and that should fix the problem, it did for me
