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[Neal McBurnett <neal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I still see this problem, running maverick.  In my case the executable's
group was avahi:

-rwxr-sr-x 1 root avahi 35432 2010-03-24 06:35 /usr/bin/mlocate

Ian's fix in comment #5 fixed it.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/281471

Title:
  Unable to use 'locate' to locate files mlocate.db permission denied

Status in Easy Peasy:
  New
Status in “mlocate” 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