Bug#3098: man-2.3.10-11 segfaults

[Alvar Bray <alvar@meiko.co.uk>]

>>>>> "Bill" == Bill Mitchell <mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com> writes:

    Bill> Package: man
    Bill> Version: 2.3.10-11

    Bill> Script started on Wed May 22 16:18:47 1996
    Bill> bash# man crap
    Bill> Updating index cache for path `/usr/local/man'. Wait...Segmentation fault
    Bill> bash# man 1 crap
    Bill> Updating index cache for path `/usr/local/man'. Wait...Segmentation fault
    Bill> bash# man 5 crap
    Bill> Updating index cache for path `/usr/local/man'. Wait...Segmentation fault
    Bill> bash# ls /usr/local/man
    Bill> man1
    Bill> bash# echo $MANPATH

    Bill> bash#
    Bill> Script done on Wed May 22 16:19:22 1996

Hi Bill,

Well it looks like its bust :) Not much to go on though

Can you Please:

1. Save a copy of the index.db file in /var/catman

2. Get a core file.

3. Run mandb -c to rebuild the index file from scratch.

4. See if this fixes it :)

If this doesnt then maybe there is something man finds unexpected with
the contents of /usr/local/man dir. So

5. tar up /usr/local/man as well.

6. Move /usr/local/man out the way and try again.

How do you usually setup your MANPATH envar?

Has anything odd happened to you machine recently, maybe a crash that
might have corrupted the file?

Then I suppose you had better mail me all the entrails :(

[Which I will lightly char using 400 year old oak wood then cast
towards sirius while turning round 3 times with my right trouser leg
rolled up and my left breast bared. We MPP supercomputer manufacturers
often find the is the best initial debugging strategy.]

alvar

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