updatedb.mlocate error email message

[wahmed]

I often get an email from all Proxmox Host nodes with the following message:
/etc/cron.daily/mlocate:
/usr/bin/updatedb.mlocate: `/var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db' is locked (probably by an earlier updatedb)
run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/mlocate exited with return code 1

What does it mean and how can fix it or should i not worry about it.
Thanks.

 

[dietmar]

Maybe mlocate cron task runs too long, due to some mounted fie systems. Consider to exclude
those paths in /etc/updatedb.conf

see: 'man updatedb.conf'

 

[informant]

hi, same issue we do have today on all nodes to the same time. this message doesn´t come before over 3 years. is the first time. we use newest pm version. is it here normal that this message come too? (
run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/mlocate exited with return code 1)
regards