On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 7:09 PM Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 14:19:04 -0400, Aruna Hewapathirane said:
Could well be ... but 'locate' shows me this:
aruna@debian:~$ locate Makefile.normal /usr/src/open-vm-tools-9.4.6/vmci/Makefile.normal /var/lib/dkms/open-vm-tools/9.4.6/build/vmci/Makefile.normal
Note that 'locate' doesn't actually walk through the file system, it greps through a file created by 'updatedb' which usually gets run from a crontab entry. As a result, 'locate' can report the existence of files that have actually been removed after the last updatedb run.
Oh dear... no wonder locate was lightning fast and I was thinking even for linux this is crazy fast speed. Now I know... Thank you Valdis and any thoughts on how I can get my mouse to work at the graphical login screen again ? make j$(nproc) is ok make modules_install is ok make install is ok but after selecting the new kernel at the GRUB2 menu it hangs at the graphical login and I am stumped. Soo... that is why 'locate' is so damn fast :-)