locate can't find files?

[Jon LaBadie]

On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 06:37:54PM -0700, MR ZenWiz wrote:
>I'm running Xubuntu 22.04 upgraded from 21.10.  The most recent
>updated to locate fails to find a number of files I have in a fairly
>well-known location.  Also, the man page for locate talks about
>placate and there is no man page for locate AFAICT.
>
>What happened?
>
>FTR, placate also can't find the files.
>
>I did just run the software updater, but I wouldn't think the kernel
>would mess this up.
>
>Any clues?

Possibilities:

As a security feature, some locate versions only show those
files you have access to.  Do your results change if you do:
$ sudo locate ImprovicusM ?

You can include/exclude things from the locate database and
you can have multiple locate databases.  As an example, I
have a couple of old systems copied as archives on my desktop.
My normal daily updatedb runs create two db's, one of only
those archives and one of the current system excluding the
archives.  I have a locate alias to search the archives db.

Does your daily updatedb cronjob exclude anything?

Jon
>
>Here's what happens:
>
>18:19 [admar at marbase:~/Downloads] $ locate ImprovicusM
>18:23 [admar at marbase:~/Downloads] $ locate Improvicus
>/home/admar/Documents/ImprovicusCommentsonSpeechesK1017.odt
>/home/admar/Documents/toastmasters/ImprovicusCharterApp-Mark.pdf
>/home/admar/Documents/toastmasters/ImprovicusCharterApp-Patricia.pdf
>/home/admar/Documents/toastmasters/ImprovicusCharterApp.pdf
>/home/admar/Documents/toastmasters/ImprovicusCharterMember-Page-2.pdf
>/home/admar/Documents/toastmasters/ImprovicusCharterMemberApp-Mark-1.pdf
>/home/admar/Documents/toastmasters/ImprovicusCharterMemberApp-Patricia-1.pdf
>/home/admar/Documents/toastmasters/ImprovicusCharterMemberApplication.pdf
>/home/admar/Documents/toastmasters/ImprovicusL0814.flac
>/home/admar/Documents/toastmasters/ImprovicusLists.odt
>/home/admar/Documents/toastmasters/TableTopicsTipsImprovicus07-25-20.pptx
>18:23 [admar at marbase:~/Downloads] $ ls /htera/Videos/Improvicus/
>chat-M0507-Improvicus.txt*  ImprovicusL1106.mp4  ImprovicusM0409.mp4
>chats-all.zip     ImprovicusL1113.mp4  ImprovicusM0409-screenshot.jpg
>ImprovicusL0703.flac     ImprovicusL1120.mp4  ImprovicusM0423.mp4
>ImprovicusL0710.flac     ImprovicusL1204.mp4  ImprovicusM0430.mp4
>ImprovicusL0717.flac     ImprovicusL1211.mp4  ImprovicusM0507.mp4
>ImprovicusL0724.flac     ImprovicusL1218.mp4  ImprovicusM0821-01.png
>ImprovicusL0731.mp4     ImprovicusLists.odt  ImprovicusM0821-02.png
>ImprovicusL0807.flac     ImprovicusM0108.mp4  ImprovicusM0821-03.png
>ImprovicusL0821.flac     ImprovicusM0121.mp4  ImprovicusM0821-04.png
>ImprovicusL0904.flac     ImprovicusM0129.mp4  ImprovicusNewsletter1.ott
>ImprovicusL0904.mp4     ImprovicusM0205.mp4  ImprovicusNewsletter.ott
>ImprovicusL0911.flac     ImprovicusM0212.mp4  ImprovicusNewsletterTemplate.odt
>ImprovicusL0911.mp4     ImprovicusM0219.mp4  Improvicus-OfficerMeet_7-31-21.flac
>ImprovicusL0918.mp4     ImprovicusM0226.mp4  Improvicus-OfficersMeetAgenda.pdf
>ImprovicusL0925.mp4     ImprovicusM0305.mp4  ImprovicusWarmUps.docx
>ImprovicusL1002.mp4     ImprovicusM0312.mp4
>ImprovicusL1009.mp4     ImprovicusM0319.mp4
>ImprovicusL1016.mp4     ImprovicusM0326.mp4
>ImprovicusL1023.mp4     ImprovicusM0402.mp4
>
>(I redacted a couple of files, but they don't contain the pattern.)
>
>Mark
>

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Jon H. LaBadie                  ubu at labadie.us