On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, jdh13 wrote:

> hello all,
> i used locate from findutils on sol7, sol8 and sol9.
> findutils came from sunfreeware.com or blastwave.org or from sun cd
> companion.
> Sine few months, locate seg fault on sol8, and on sol9, when i launch
> updatedb, it runs during 2 days and consumes 100% cpu still i kill it
> i search on google, not finding a solution
> findutils is 4.1 and seems not released since 1994
>
> i try to recompile it, but obtain the same result

../configure --program-prefix=g please : >

> scr-henry% truss ./locate/locate runtest
>
> read(3, " r i m e n t A T - t h e".., 8192) = 8192
> read(3, " t o . e p s\0\n f i g\0".., 8192) = 8192
> Incurred fault #6, FLTBOUNDS %pc = 0x000124DC
> siginfo: SIGSEGV SEGV_MAPERR addr=0x000363C3
> Received signal #11, SIGSEGV [default]
> siginfo: SIGSEGV SEGV_MAPERR addr=0x000363C3
> *** process killed ***
> anybody can help?

Maybe. You will get seg faults when you dont alter PRUNEPATHS
to include directories like /proc... eg:
: ${PRUNEPATHS="/tmp /usr/tmp /var/tmp /afs /proc"}