On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 08:16:26PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:

> To show the severity of the issue, this is from my sparc box during a 
> regular upgrade (last one was 2 months ago):
>  9630 man       20   0  5448 1960  680 R 98.8  0.2  54:11.05 mandb

> And no idea how much longer it's going to take.

It will spin for ever unless you kill man-db.  A fix has already been
accepted into the archive (it's triggered by a change in zlib, though
the spinning appears to be an issue in man-db).

> Users are very likely to conclude something is in an endless loop.

It is in an endless loop.



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