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FS#1806 - Missing slocate group causes /etc/cron.daily/updatedb to fail

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by BlueRaven (BlueRaven) - Friday, 19 November 2004, 08:55 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category System
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture not specified
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Hi, I am receiving the following error from two different machines (the second one installed just yesterday):

warning: updatedb: could not open database: /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db: No such file or directory
warning: updatedb: Could not find the group: slocate in the /etc/group file.
fatal error: This is a result of the group missing or a corrupted group file.

In fact, the slocate group is missing from /etc/group.
I installed from a 0.6-base CD and the slocate group was there, then I upgraded my system to 0.7 with pacman -Syu and noticed that in /etc/group.pacnew it had been removed, so I removed it too from my group file.
I tried to look at online CVS, but could not find when the modification was introduced.
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Closed by  Judd Vinet (judd)
Friday, 19 November 2004, 19:32 GMT
Reason for closing:  Duplicate
Comment by Judd Vinet (judd) - Friday, 19 November 2004, 19:32 GMT
See #1725. this is fixed for 0.7-final.

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