Bug#1735: apropos(1) segfaults

[andrew@kryten.it.com.au (Andrew Howell)]

Bill Mitchell writes:
> PACKAGE: man
> VERSION: 2.3.10-2
>
> Script started on Sun Oct 22 18:55:28 1995
> root:/root# apropos inode
> utime (2)            - change access and/or modification times of an inode
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> root:/root# apropos cat
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> root:/root# apropos crap
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> root:/root#
> Script done on Sun Oct 22 18:55:58 1995
>
> mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell)

I've had this problem before as well, but I discovered that the man database
was screwed up and forcing it to rebuild it with mandb fixed it. Still it
shouldn't really core dump even if the database is corrupt.

Andrew

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Andrew Howell				               andrew@it.com.au
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