Re: man gives segmentation fault

[Carey Evans <c.evans@clear.net.nz>]

Kevin Scott <scottkj@prl.research.philips.com> writes:

[snip]

> % man man
> Segmentation fault

> % ls -l /usr/bin/man
> -rwsr-xr-x   1 man      root        71204 May 21 10:40 /usr/bin/man

> % strace man
> execve("/usr/bin/man", ["man"], [/* 29 vars */]) = 0
> strace: exec: Operation not permitted

It's not permitted because man is setuid.  Can you `su man' from root
and try this?

For reference, I have 1.3.1 with bits of unstable, and:

% dpkg -l man-db
[...]
ii  man-db          2.3.10-38      Display the on-line manual.
% ll =man
-rwsr-xr-x   1 man      root        71204 May 21 21:40 /usr/bin/man*
% md5sum =man
df908796a4f70b17d294a80ab81dc72c  /usr/bin/man
% ldd =man
        libdb.so.1 => /usr/lib/libdb.so.1 (0x4000b000)
        libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x4001a000)
% man man
[works]

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