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[Jordan Callicoat <MonkeeSage@xxxxxxxxx>]

Better workaround (only have to apply it once):

sudo usermod -a -G mlocate $USER

Logout, log back in and locate works again.

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Unable to use 'locate' to locate files mlocate.db permission denied
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/281471
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Status in Easy Peasy: New
Status in “mlocate” source package in Ubuntu: New

Bug description:
I'm using Hardy on a 1000h. When I'm trying to locate a file using locate I receive
$ locate gdm
locate: can not open `/var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db': Permission denied

I listed /var/lib/locate and mlocate.db seems to be owned by root and group mlocate
$ ls -al /var/lib/mlocate
total 3204
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root       4096 2008-10-11 00:33 .
drwxr-xr-x 51 root root       4096 2008-10-06 21:01 ..
-rw-r-----  1 root mlocate 3266135 2008-10-11 00:33 mlocate.db