Hello,
As the title says, locate is not locating files in my Home directory. Works fine outside of $HOME.
Some probably useless information.
:~> namei -l /var/lib/plocate/plocate.db
f: /var/lib/plocate/plocate.db
drwxr-xr-x root root /
drwxr-xr-x root root var
drwxr-xr-x root root lib
drwxr-xr-x root root plocate
-rw-r--r-- root root plocate.db
# /etc/updatedb.conf: config file for plocate
# This file sets variables that are used by updatedb.
# For more info, see the updatedb.conf(5) manpage.
# Filesystems that are pruned from updatedb database
PRUNEFS="9p afs anon_inodefs auto autofs bdev binfmt binfmt_misc ceph fuse.ceph cgroup cifs coda configfs cramfs cpuset debugfs devfs devpts devtmps ecryptfs eventpollfs exofs futexfs ftpfs fuse fusectl gfs gfs2 gpfs hostfs hugetlbfs inotifyfs iso9660 jffs2 lustre misc mqueue ncpfs nfs NFS nfs4 nfsd nnpfs ocfs ocfs2 pipefs proc ramfs rpc_pipefs securityfs selinuxfs sfs shfs smbfs sockfs spufs sshfs subfs supermount sysfs tmpfs ubifs udf usbfs vboxsf vperfctrfs"
# Paths which are pruned from updatedb database
PRUNEPATHS="/tmp /var/tmp /var/cache /var/lock /var/run /var/spool /mnt /cdrom /usr/tmp /proc /media /sys /.snapshots /var/run/media"
# Folder names that are pruned from updatedb database
PRUNENAMES=".git .hg .svn .bzr .arch-ids {arch} CVS"
# Skip bind mounts
# DISABLED for bnc#994663 (probably still valid for plocate?)
# and to avoid btrfs subvolume issues
PRUNE_BIND_MOUNTS="no"
Any ideas? Thanks for reading.
FYI: catfish, which uses the plocate.db, works as expected.
I also tested locate on my laptop and it doesn’t work there either. I’ll submit a bug report.
I am not having a problem with locate finding items in /home on tumbleweed,
(base) tom@mydesktop: ~ $ locate .bashrc
/etc/bash.bashrc
/home/tom/.bashrc
/home/tom/.bashrc.backup.20260115
/home/tom/.bashrc.backup.20260331
/home/tom/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steam-runtime-sniper/sniper_platform_0.20240618.92328/files/etc/bash.bashrc
/home/tom/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steam-runtime-sniper/sniper_platform_0.20240618.92328/files/share/base-files/dot.bashrc
/home/tom/Cfd/SALOME-9.13.0/BINARIES-CO7/KERNEL/bin/salome/appliskel/.bashrc
/home/tom/Cfd/SALOME-9.13.0/BINARIES-CO7/SALOME/.bashrc
/home/tom/Cfd/SALOME-9.13.0/BINARIES-CO7/SALOMEBOOTSTRAP/__RUN_SALOME__/.bashrc
/home/tom/Cfd/SALOME-9.13.0/BINARIES-CO7/URANIE/uranie.bashrc
/usr/etc/bash.bashrc
/usr/etc/skel/.bashrc
Try updating your db. I had to go to update command below because of “nobody” ownership issue that I don’t undersand.
sudo systemctl start plocate-updatedb
On one of my machines with Apparmor I have the same result as you provided I don’t glob. Can you glob with accurate results? Are you using SELinux?
With SELinux my results are:
:~> locate .bashrc
/etc/bash.bashrc
/usr/etc/bash.bashrc
/usr/etc/skel/.bashrc
No issues locating files on the main file system.
My database updates everyday (I also did it manually).
I tested my Apparmor machine and I can glob successfully. Mush be an SELinux thing.
Results from home directory (notice the period):
:~> ls -l
total 0
drwxr-xr-x. 1 ben ben 116 Apr 13 11:41 bin
drwxr-xr-x. 1 ben ben 0 Apr 20 11:51 Desktop
drwxr-xr-x. 1 ben ben 636 Apr 20 11:54 Documents
drwxr-xr-x. 1 ben ben 16 Apr 22 00:04 Downloads
drwxr-xr-x. 1 ben ben 0 Feb 24 2024 Music
drwxr-xr-x. 1 ben ben 454 Apr 4 12:47 Pictures
drwxr-xr-x. 1 ben ben 0 Feb 24 2024 Public
drwxr-xr-x. 1 ben ben 0 Feb 24 2024 Templates
drwxr-xr-x. 1 ben ben 16 Apr 13 11:36 Videos
I have apparmor running but I have never done anything to configure it. Apparmor gives the active profiles as below:
base) tom@mydesktop: ~ $ sudo apparmor_status
apparmor module is loaded.
169 profiles are loaded.
88 profiles are in enforce mode.
/usr/bin/lessopen.sh
**/usr/bin/{p,}locate**
/usr/lib/colord
/usr/{bin,sbin}/updatedb
apache2
apache2//DEFAULT_URI
apache2//HANDLING_UNTRUSTED_INPUT
apache2//phpsysinfo
avahi-daemon
dnsmasq
dnsmasq//libvirt_leaseshelper
dovecot
dovecot-anvil
dovecot-auth
dovecot-config
dovecot-deliver
dovecot-dict
dovecot-director
dovecot-doveadm-server
dovecot-dovecot-auth
dovecot-dovecot-lda
dovecot-dovecot-lda//sendmail
dovecot-imap
dovecot-imap-login
dovecot-lmtp
dovecot-log
dovecot-managesieve
dovecot-managesieve-login
dovecot-pop3
dovecot-pop3-login
dovecot-replicator
dovecot-script-login
dovecot-ssl-params
dovecot-stats
ghostscript
gitweb.cgi
identd
klogd
libvirtd
libvirtd//qemu_bridge_helper
lsb_release
mdnsd
nmbd
nscd
ntpd
nvidia_modprobe
nvidia_modprobe//kmod
passt
pasta
php-fpm
ping
plasmashell
plasmashell//QtWebEngineProcess
samba-bgqd
samba-dcerpcd
samba-rpcd
samba-rpcd-classic
samba-rpcd-spoolss
sbuild
sbuild-abort
sbuild-adduser
sbuild-apt
sbuild-checkpackages
sbuild-clean
sbuild-createchroot
sbuild-destroychroot
sbuild-distupgrade
sbuild-hold
sbuild-shell
sbuild-unhold
sbuild-update
sbuild-upgrade
smbd
smbldap-useradd
smbldap-useradd///etc/init.d/nscd
syslog-ng
syslogd
traceroute
unix-chkpwd
unprivileged_userns
virt-aa-helper
virtqemud
virtqemud//qemu_bridge_helper
virtxend
winbindd
zgrep
zgrep//helper
zgrep//sed
6 profiles are in complain mode.
Xorg
ghostscript///usr/bin/hpijs
transmission-cli
transmission-daemon
transmission-gtk
transmission-qt
0 profiles are in prompt mode.
0 profiles are in kill mode.
75 profiles are in unconfined mode.
1password
Discord
MongoDB Compass
QtWebEngineProcess
balena-etcher
brave
buildah
busybox
cam
ch-checkns
ch-run
chrome
chromium
devhelp
element-desktop
epiphany
evolution
firefox
flatpak
foliate
geary
github-desktop
goldendict
ipa_verify
kchmviewer
keybase
lc-compliance
libcamerify
linux-sandbox
loupe
lxc-attach
lxc-create
lxc-destroy
lxc-execute
lxc-stop
lxc-unshare
lxc-usernsexec
mmdebstrap
msedge
nautilus
notepadqq
obsidian
opam
opera
pageedit
polypane
privacybrowser
qcam
qmapshack
qutebrowser
rootlesskit
rpm
rssguard
scide
signal-desktop
slack
slirp4netns
steam
stress-ng
surfshark
systemd-coredump
thunderbird
toybox
trinity
tup
tuxedo-control-center
userbindmount
uwsgi-core
vdens
virtiofsd
vivaldi-bin
vpnns
vscode
wike
wpcom
37 processes have profiles defined.
4 processes are in enforce mode.
/usr/sbin/avahi-daemon (1154) avahi-daemon
/usr/sbin/dnsmasq (69288) dnsmasq
/usr/sbin/dnsmasq (69289) dnsmasq
/usr/sbin/nmbd (2004) nmbd
0 processes are in complain mode.
0 processes are in prompt mode.
0 processes are in kill mode.
33 processes are unconfined but have a profile defined.
/opt/vivaldi/vivaldi-bin (9536) vivaldi-bin
/opt/vivaldi/chrome_crashpad_handler (9544) vivaldi-bin
/opt/vivaldi/chrome_crashpad_handler (9546) vivaldi-bin
/opt/vivaldi/vivaldi-bin (9552) vivaldi-bin
/opt/vivaldi/vivaldi-bin (9553) vivaldi-bin
/opt/vivaldi/vivaldi-bin (9555) vivaldi-bin
/opt/vivaldi/vivaldi-bin (9647) vivaldi-bin
/opt/vivaldi/vivaldi-bin (9649) vivaldi-bin
/opt/vivaldi/vivaldi-bin (9661) vivaldi-bin
/opt/vivaldi/vivaldi-bin (9680) vivaldi-bin
/opt/vivaldi/vivaldi-bin (9698) vivaldi-bin
/opt/vivaldi/vivaldi-bin (9701) vivaldi-bin
/opt/vivaldi/vivaldi-bin (9725) vivaldi-bin
/opt/vivaldi/vivaldi-bin (9726) vivaldi-bin
/opt/vivaldi/vivaldi-bin (10644) vivaldi-bin
/opt/vivaldi/vivaldi-bin (11002) vivaldi-bin
/opt/vivaldi/vivaldi-bin (12882) vivaldi-bin
/opt/vivaldi/vivaldi-bin (12905) vivaldi-bin
/opt/vivaldi/vivaldi-bin (12923) vivaldi-bin
/opt/vivaldi/vivaldi-bin (12934) vivaldi-bin
/opt/vivaldi/vivaldi-bin (12945) vivaldi-bin
/opt/vivaldi/vivaldi-bin (13663) vivaldi-bin
/opt/vivaldi/vivaldi-bin (13664) vivaldi-bin
/opt/vivaldi/vivaldi-bin (13704) vivaldi-bin
/opt/vivaldi/vivaldi-bin (16080) vivaldi-bin
/opt/vivaldi/vivaldi-bin (16463) vivaldi-bin
/opt/vivaldi/vivaldi-bin (16487) vivaldi-bin
/opt/vivaldi/vivaldi-bin (52813) vivaldi-bin
/opt/vivaldi/vivaldi-bin (52921) vivaldi-bin
/opt/vivaldi/vivaldi-bin (52994) vivaldi-bin
/opt/vivaldi/vivaldi-bin (56451) vivaldi-bin
/opt/vivaldi/vivaldi-bin (75443) vivaldi-bin
/opt/vivaldi/vivaldi-bin (75597) vivaldi-bin
0 processes are in mixed mode.
You have new mail in /var/mail/tom
(base) tom@mydesktop: ~ $ sudo sestatus
sudo: sestatus: command not found
(base) tom@mydesktop: ~ $
From above it is seen that: “plocate” is in enforce mode. I don’t really have any idea what this means.
tom kosvic
I think it means it’s “enforcing” the policies (“protection?”), while “permissive” or “disabled” does the opposite. Either way, I’m now using find. I prefer it after using it for a few days. I do not have a million files in $HOME so I don’t notice a lag.