On Sun, 15 Mar 1998, Richard Lindner wrote:

> i've been experiencing problems with 'locate' under both 4.2 amd 5.0 - the
> command works as expected, but dumps core with a segmentation fault on
> completion. it works fine on several other machines here - the problem

<snip> 

problem solved - a weird recursive entry in my news spool:

/var/spool/news/[some-more-stuff]/1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1......etc

strangely enough it had never been picked up by fsck!!

curious ... but fixed at last!! :)

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