On 06/09/2018 07:20 AM, Peter Suetterlin wrote:

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Hi,

        I'm getting this after running updatedb -

                    can not open a temporary file for '/var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db'

        I've had to remove mlocate then reinstall it and the first updatedb runs fine,

        then I get the above error message for the second run.....is there a better fix

        for this? Hmm, likely a permission issue. It normally runs as nobody (unless you change

mike wrote: that). Maybe the initial run when installing it is run as root? Then the DB is owned by root and cannot be changed. Or did you call updatedb yourself?

            always run as root -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org

On 06/09/2018 08:15 AM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* mike <furryllama@comcast.net> [06-09-18 08:09]:

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On 06/09/2018 07:20 AM, Peter Suetterlin wrote:

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Hi,

        I'm getting this after running updatedb -

                    can not open a temporary file for '/var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db'

        I've had to remove mlocate then reinstall it and the first updatedb runs fine,

        then I get the above error message for the second run.....is there a better fix

        for this? Hmm, likely a permission issue. It normally runs as nobody (unless you change

mike wrote: that). Maybe the initial run when installing it is run as root? Then the DB is owned by root and cannot be changed. Or did you call updatedb yourself?             always run as root

show: ls -la /var/lib/mlocate drwxr-xr-x 1 nobody root 20 Jun 9 00:15 . drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1006 Jun 8 23:30 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 16874246 Jun 9 00:15 mlocate.db

    drwxr-xr-x  2 nobody root      4096 Jun  8 17:15 .     drwxr-xr-x 62 root   root      4096 Jun  5 17:44 ..     -rw-r--r--  1 nobody nobody 8042832 Jun  8 17:15 mlocate.db -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org

* mike <furryllama@comcast.net> [06-10-18 09:24]:

On 06/09/2018 08:07 AM, mike wrote:

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On 06/09/2018 07:20 AM, Peter Suetterlin wrote:

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Hi,

         I'm getting this after running updatedb -

                     can not open a temporary file for '/var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db'

         I've had to remove mlocate then reinstall it and the first updatedb runs fine,

         then I get the above error message for the second run.....is there a better fix

         for this? Hmm, likely a permission issue.  It normally runs as nobody (unless you change

mike wrote: that).  Maybe the initial run when installing it is run as root?  Then the DB is owned by root and cannot be changed.  Or did you call updatedb yourself?

            always run as root

        su nobody then run updatedb worked

so root is not in "nobody" group. if you add it, then root will be able to updatedb. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org

On 06/09/2018 01:41 PM, Simon Lees wrote:

This is an example of the sort of email that should be going to opensuse-support@o.o rather then this mailing list because it is not about development of openSUSE distro's.

Hi, Simon: I tried subscribing to opensuse-support, but I have had no indication that my attempt was successfull, no confirmation of subscription and no mail coming in from opensuse-support still as of this date. -- -Gerry Makaro openSUSE Member openSUSE Forum Moderator openSUSE Contributor aka Fraser_Bell on the Forums, OBS, IRC, and mail at openSUSE.org Fraser-Bell on Github -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org