[Bug 281471] Re: Unable to use 'locate' to locate files mlocate.db permission denied

[bhaskar]

Same issue on a 15.10 upgraded to 16.04:

e0101450 at bhaskark:/Distrib/Ubuntu$ locate abc.def
locate: can not open `/var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db': Permission denied
e0101450 at bhaskark:/Distrib/Ubuntu$ ls -l /var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db
-rw-r----- 1 root mlocate 25974609 May 16 09:21 /var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db
e0101450 at bhaskark:/Distrib/Ubuntu$ ls -ld /var/lib/mlocate/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 24 May 16 09:21 /var/lib/mlocate/
e0101450 at bhaskark:/Distrib/Ubuntu$

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Title:
  Unable to use 'locate' to locate files mlocate.db permission denied

Status in Easy Peasy:
  New
Status in mlocate package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I'm using Hardy on a 1000h. When I'm trying to locate a file using locate I receive
  $ locate gdm
  locate: can not open `/var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db': Permission denied

  I listed /var/lib/locate and mlocate.db seems to be owned by root and group mlocate
  $ ls -al /var/lib/mlocate
  total 3204
  drwxr-xr-x  2 root root       4096 2008-10-11 00:33 .
  drwxr-xr-x 51 root root       4096 2008-10-06 21:01 ..
  -rw-r-----  1 root mlocate 3266135 2008-10-11 00:33 mlocate.db

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