Bug#597756: iconv: conversion stopped due to problem in writing the output

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

reassign 597756 man-db
thanks

Stephen Powell a écrit :
> Package: eglibc
> Version: 2.11.2-5
> 
> I'm not sure if this bug is in iconv itself or in another package which
> calls iconv, but since I have discovered the problem in at least two
> packages (bash and dash) I will report it against iconv and you may
> reassign it as you see fit.
> 
> When looking at the man page for bash or dash, then quitting immediately
> on the first screen by pressing q, I sometimes get the following error message:
> 
> iconv: conversion stopped due to problem in writing the output
> 
> But I can't seem to reproduce the problem consistently.  Sometimes I
> get the error, and sometimes I don't.  I have yet to come up with a
> scenario that always causes the failure symptoms.
> 

This message is printed by iconv when data is sent for conversion on
stdin, and stdout is suddenly closed. This is not a problem of iconv,
thus reassigning the bug to man-db.

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