Ubuntu
slocate package

slocate cron job fails without ioprio_set

Bug #173489 reported by Matt LaPlante
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slocate (Ubuntu)
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Low
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: slocate

I have gutsy installed on an openvz virtual machine (from a vps provider). Apparently these VMs do not include the ioprio_set ability, because my slocate cron job fails daily:
/etc/cron.daily/slocate:
ioprio_set: Operation not permitted

I can confirm that the 'ionice' command is effectively useless on this installation, as it pretty much always fails with the above. The cron job needs to find a way around this or else slocate will never be updated without manual intervention.

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Daniel Hahler (blueyed) wrote :

This seems to be only an error from ionice, but updatedb will run nevertheless, because ionice should get called for the current process only:
ionice -c ${IONICE_CLASS:-2} -n ${IONICE_PRIORITY:-7} -p $$

I've found http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=456292 which talks about this for dlocate (where it really fails, because ionice calls the command) and the solution appears to be redirecting stderr for the ionice call to /dev/null.

Can you report it for slocate to Debian and then link it here?
Because it's only a cosmetical thing, I don't think we should risk doing this differently than in Debian.

Changed in slocate:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
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Phillip Susi (psusi) wrote :

This package has been removed from Ubuntu. Closing all related bugs.

Changed in slocate (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Invalid
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