Package: plocate Version: 1.1.14-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
On a machine with a CIFS mount on /mnt, plocate-updatedb.service failed and updatedb.plocate printed: /: Host is down Running updatedb.plocate -v printed: //initrd.img.old //vmlinuz.old //mnt //root //vmlinuz //sys //bin //run //etc //libx32 //lib32 //var //initrd.img //usr //lib //tmp //proc //srv //home //dev //lost+found //lib64 //media //sbin //opt //boot /: Host is down It turns out this the failure was due to a network issue which prevented contacting the host for the CIFS mount on /mnt. However, this presents several issues that might be worth addressing: 1. The error message contains the parent directory, rather than the directory which could not be read, which makes the error harder to diagnose. 2. The error occurred on a CIFS filesystem, which is excluded by PRUNEFS in /etc/updatedb.conf. Presumably it should be skipped rather than causing an error. 3. updatedb immediately aborts, rather than updating the database for the rest of the filesystem. In this case, since the failing mount was at the root, the entire tree is skipped. Let me know if you'd like me to report any of these issues separately. Thanks for considering, Kevin -- System Information: Debian Release: bookworm/sid APT prefers testing-debug APT policy: (990, 'testing-debug'), (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'oldoldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental-debug') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.16.0+ (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages plocate depends on: ii libc6 2.33-2 ii libgcc-s1 11.2.0-13 ii libstdc++6 11.2.0-13 ii liburing2 2.1-2 ii libzstd1 1.4.8+dfsg-3 plocate recommends no packages. Versions of packages plocate suggests: ii powermgmt-base 1.36 ii systemd-sysv 250.2-3 -- no debconf information
