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This happens on a daily basis. It has not worked for me at all. Here is more
of the information that i get in the email from the daily cron job:
/etc/cron.daily/man-db:
/etc/cron.daily/man-db: line 22: 19428 Segmentation fault
start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile /dev/null --startas /usr/lib/man-db/mandb
--oknodo --chuid man -- --no-purge >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/man-db exited with return code 139
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Kernel Version: Linux smaug 2.2.20 #1 Fri Nov 16 15:48:02 EST 2001 sparc unknown
Versions of the packages man-db depends on:
ii bsdmainutils 5.20020211-4.9 More utilities from FreeBSD.
ii debconf 1.0.32 Debian configuration management system
ii dpkg 1.9.21 Package maintenance system for Debian
ii groff-base 1.17.2-15.wood GNU troff text-formatting system (base syste
ii libc6 2.2.5-11.2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii libdb2 2.7.7.0-7 The Berkeley database routines (run-time fil
groff Not installed or no info
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Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 17:13:15 +0100
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Subject: Re: Bug#174421: man-db: /etc/cron.daily/man-db: line 22: 19428
Segmentation fault
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Package: man-db
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On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 12:18:41AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> Oh, I see, you're on sparc. This is a known segfault in libdb2 on that
> architecture, and not one that anybody seems to know how to fix; in
> later releases (>= 2.4.0-1) man-db is linked against libdb3 instead,
> which seems to have cured the problem. It's been reported several times
> and I've been reassigning the reports to libdb2, but another one there
> probably won't make any difference, so I'll leave this bug report filed
> against man-db by way of documentation.
Since sarge is stable now, I'm closing this bug.
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