[Bug 47408] Re: md5sum: /lib/udev/devices/core: Operation not permitted

[JP Vossen]

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...)

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md5sum: /lib/udev/devices/core: Operation not permitted
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