Error using "locate --statistics"

[Bryan Dietz]

while using the updatedb and locate utilities I get the following from:

locate --statistics

Database /QOpenSys/var/locatedb is in the old format.

locate: memory exhausted

locate --version

locate (GNU findutils) 4.6.0

updatedb --version

updatedb (GNU findutils) 4.6.0

this is failing on a 9080-M9s @ v7.3 1.5 phy cpu and 48 gb memory what else can I provide?

[Kevin Adler]

Hardware shouldn’t matter in this regard. Basically the way that PASE works, “no more memory” doesn’t really have anything to do with actual physical memory on the system.

What’s the output of rpm -qi findutils?

[Bryan Dietz]

rpm -qi findutils
Name : findutils
Version : 4.6.0
Release : 2
Architecture: ppc64
Install Date: Tue Nov 5 13:35:11 2019
Group : Unspecified
Size : 8018534
License : GPL-3.0-or-later
Signature : (none)
Source RPM : findutils-4.6.0-2.src.rpm
Build Date : Tue Nov 5 12:31:13 2019
Build Host : UT25BP3
Relocations : (not relocatable)
URL : https://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/
Summary : GNU find and xargs

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[Kevin Adler]

Looks like something went wrong with our rebuild on IBM i 7.2. Can you try downgrading to 4.6.0-1 with yum downgrade findutils and make sure that works?

[Bryan Dietz]

unfortunately this was and first setup of the OSS tool3:

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-bash-4.4$ yum downgrade findutils
Setting up Downgrade Process
ibm | 2.2 kB 00:00:00
Only Upgrade available on package: findutils-4.6.0-2.ppc64
Nothing to do

[Kevin Adler]

Hey Bryan, sorry about that. I thought I had manually pushed up the previous rpm, but it looks like it didn’t work before. You should be able to downgrade now, though.

[Bryan Dietz]

the downgrade looks to be working, Thanks.

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Removed:
findutils.ppc64 0:4.6.0-2

Installed:
findutils.ppc64 0:4.6.0-1

updatedb --prunepaths='/QOPT /QDLS /QSYS.LIB'

locate --statistics
Database /QOpenSys/var/locatedb is in the GNU LOCATE02 format.
Database was last modified at 2019:11:12 07:54:56.000000000 EST
Locate database size: 5337789 bytes
All Filenames: 484075
File names have a cumulative length of 33437726 bytes.
Of those file names,

     6735 contain whitespace,                       
     0 contain newline characters,                  
     and 1 contain characters with the high bit set.

Compression ratio 84.04% (higher is better)

[Kevin Adler]

A new version of findutils is available that fixes this bug

[Bryan Dietz]

It is working, thanks Bryan

Kevin Adler wrote on 11/25/2019 4:07 PM: