Ubuntu
fcheck package

  1. Bug #47408
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 47408

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JP Vossen (jp-jpsdomain) wrote :

Yet more...

I just installed 8.04.2 64-bit, and fcheck is taking *forever* on the "Building fcheck database (may be some time)..." stage. It seems like its hanging but it's not, top says it's running at least 2 md5sum processes, which are consuming 95%+ of both cores… (Yeah, it's trying to hash my 320G disk. Which is encrypted.)-:

The installer auto-runs the DB build as part of the install, which is normally a Good Thing (and one reason why this is a great package) but in this case that's a problem since it's not obvious how to install it, add the line you need (as above), then re-run.

A work-around on that is to:

$ sudo aptitude install fcheck

Wait for it to hang on the "building…" line then log in to a different terminal, add the EXCLUDE line as above. Go back to the original terminal and hit CTRL-C, which will kill the current DB build, but it will re-try. If that still hangs for more than 10-20 mins, hit CTRL-C several times until you kill the entire install, then just run the install again.

This method worked for me just now.

PLEASE, someone on the MOTU-team just add the EXCLUDE line to the default config!!!

(It might be nice to add a "CFInclude = /etc/fcheck/fcheck-local.cfg" line or similar by default too, if that would not cause any problems. As you are probably aware many packages do things like that to avoid config file collisions. I will be happy to open a bug for that if anyone will actually do something about all of this...)