Run updatedb first. You can run it manually from the command line.
updatedb
It should have scheduled itself as a cron job when you installed slocate. If you just installed slocate, it will not have run yet. Otherwise, make sure you have a cron daemon running and that there is an updatedb task scheduled. Also, make sure your computer is on when it it is scheduled
If this is a VM and does not run continuously especially never spent days on this will happen. Just in case check the cron job found here:
The cron job is found here:
/etc/cron.daily/mlocate.cron
Thats’ pretty much it.
Quick question about updedatb’s very deep hiearchy test.The path generated goes way past PATH_MAX, which causes problems with gentoo’s sandbox. To work around this I shortened the names of the directories generated to just a number, which allows the same number of directories but all with shorter names.Is this an acceptable solution, or does it defeat the purpose of the test?Thanks,Brennan