[SOLVED] Did something break 'find'?

Question

I don't use the find command a whole lot, so (a.) I could just be missing something, and (b.) I have no idea exactly when this started. However, the find command seems to be totally broken on my system even after a reboot. Even simple things like 'find' or 'find . -print' in my home or / directory produce no output. I keep my system pretty well exactly up to date (last -Syu was just last night), and I don't use testing. TIA.
EDIT: Thought it might be relevant what version I'm using. findutils 4.4.2-4
Last edited by palintropos (2012-02-20 17:18:37)

Answer 1

'strace find' produces a boatload of output, but I don't really understand any of it. What should I be looking for?
EDIT: I decided to come back and include some sample output in case anyone else curious and wanting to help decides to come along.
In the following examples, the commands indicated were performed on a small directory in my home folder housing 3 .iso files I've downloaded.
ls:
archlinux-2011.08.19-netinstall-i686.iso systemrescuecd-x86-2.4.1.iso
pmagic_2011_12_30.iso
find: no output
strace find:
execve("/usr/bin/find", ["find"], [/* 45 vars */]) = 0
brk(0) = 0x8a6b000
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7774000
access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=95344, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 95344, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xb775c000
close(3) = 0
open("/lib/librt.so.1", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\320\30\0\0004\0\0\0"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=30696, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 33356, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xb7753000
mmap2(0xb775a000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x6) = 0xb775a000
close(3) = 0
open("/lib/libm.so.6", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0000D\0\0004\0\0\0"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=173588, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 176256, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xb7727000
mmap2(0xb7751000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x29) = 0xb7751000
close(3) = 0
open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\3\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\340\225\1\0004\0\0\0"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1949865, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 1706628, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xb7586000
mmap2(0xb7721000, 12288, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x19b) = 0xb7721000
mmap2(0xb7724000, 10884, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7724000
close(3) = 0
open("/lib/libpthread.so.0", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\320Z\0\0004\0\0\0"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=130607, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 107004, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xb756b000
mmap2(0xb7582000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x16) = 0xb7582000
mmap2(0xb7584000, 4604, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7584000
close(3) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb756a000
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7569000
set_thread_area({entry_number:-1 -> 6, base_addr:0xb75696c0, limit:1048575, seg_32bit:1, contents:0, read_exec_only:0, limit_in_pages:1, seg_not_present:0, useable:1}) = 0
mprotect(0xb7721000, 8192, PROT_READ) = 0
mprotect(0xb7582000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0
mprotect(0xb7751000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0
mprotect(0xb775a000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0
mprotect(0x806e000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0
mprotect(0xb7796000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0
munmap(0xb775c000, 95344) = 0
set_tid_address(0xb7569728) = 3900
set_robust_list(0xb7569730, 0xc) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGRTMIN, {0xb7570560, [], SA_SIGINFO}, NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGRT_1, {0xb75705e0, [], SA_RESTART|SA_SIGINFO}, NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, [RTMIN RT_1], NULL, 8) = 0
getrlimit(RLIMIT_STACK, {rlim_cur=8192*1024, rlim_max=RLIM_INFINITY}) = 0
uname({sys="Linux", node="gozer", ...}) = 0
uname({sys="Linux", node="gozer", ...}) = 0
ioctl(0, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_NEXT_DEVICE or TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0
gettimeofday({1329756546, 612989}, NULL) = 0
brk(0) = 0x8a6b000
brk(0x8a8c000) = 0x8a8c000
ioctl(1, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_NEXT_DEVICE or TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0
open(".", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
fchdir(3) = 0
fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, ".", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0
open(".", O_RDONLY|O_NOCTTY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY|O_NOFOLLOW) = 4
fchdir(4) = 0
fstat64(1, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0620, st_rdev=makedev(136, 1), ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7773000
write(1, ".\n", 2) = 2
openat(AT_FDCWD, ".", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC) = 5
fchdir(5) = 0
getdents64(5, /* 5 entries */, 32768) = 208
getdents64(5, /* 0 entries */, 32768) = 0
close(5) = 0
write(1, "./systemrescuecd-x86-2.4.1.iso\n", 31) = 31
write(1, "./pmagic_2011_12_30.iso\n", 24) = 24
write(1, "./archlinux-2011.08.19-netinstal"..., 43) = 43
fchdir(4) = 0
fchdir(4) = 0
close(4) = 0
close(1) = 0
munmap(0xb7773000, 4096) = 0
close(2) = 0
exit_group(0) = ?
Last edited by palintropos (2012-02-20 16:51:54)