I've searched through the archives and checked the google usenet archives and seem to be unable to find a working solution to what seems to be a fairly common problem. When I try to run slocate I get the following error.
Hi I had this problem on one serverand even when I ran updatdb did not fix it I finally ran updatedb and excluded say /home/sites and it all worked then I ran it a bit more say excluding site30 on etc untill it broke what I found was that certain file names in on of the users sites cause this this site had
file names that were like %$##@and was causing this problem seems the site was a Koren site and that when he made the files these names were happening
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