error using "locate --statistics"

[Bryan Dietz]

after updatedb runs to completion I tried to use locate --statitics

returned: -bash-4.4$ locate --statistics Database /QOpenSys/var/locatedb is in the GNU LOCATE02 format. Assertion failed: __EX, file locate.c, line 868 Database was last modified at 2018:07:16 15:40:20.000000000IOT/Abort trap (core dumped)

-bash-4.4$ yum provides locate ibm ibm/primary ibm findutils-4.6.0-0.ppc64 : GNU find and xargs

[Jesse G]

@bdietz400 , sorry for the lack of movement here. Are you still running into this problem?

[Bryan Dietz]

Yes I am.

all 3 OS versions have same problem.

Bryan

[Mark Irish]

@bdietz400 , I am looking into this today. I'll let you know when I find something.

[Mark Irish]

@bdietz400 We have isolated the problem and are working on a permanent solution. For now, if you set the environment variable XPG_SUS_ENV=ON, it will run as expected. To set it just for running the locate utility, something like:

XPG_SUS_ENV=ON locate --statistics

[Bryan Dietz]

excellent, I look forward to the perm fix.

Bryan

Mark Irish wrote on 11/15/2018 5:10 PM:

[Mark Irish]

@bdietz400 Alright, a new yum package has been posted that should fix the issue. To get it, you should be able to run yum upgrade findutils and then locate --statistics should run without error.

[Bryan Dietz]

That fixed it. Thanks

[Mark Irish]

Isolated the issue (asserts were enabled in deployed code and AIX was not formatting a timezone as expected), fixed issue, and deployed new RPM.