Public bug reported:
Whenever I install a package that includes a man page, apt-install gets
stuck for multiple minutes on the step "Processing triggers for man-db".
In many cases, this means that the "man-db" trigger takes significantly
longer the rest of the installation combined.
This slowness is enough of a nuisance that I eventually disabled the
man-db update by running
```
echo "set man-db/auto-update false" | sudo debconf-communicate 0 value set
```
However, many users probably won't go to the effort of figuring out how
to do this, and will just be frustrated by installations taking a long
time.
According to some of my co-workers this started happening a few weeks
ago (on 24.04).
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04
Package: man-db 2.12.0-4build2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.8.0-38.38-generic 6.8.8
Uname: Linux 6.8.0-38-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.28.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Mon Jul 22 12:20:30 2024
InstallationDate: Installed on 2024-07-19 (3 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS "Noble Numbat" - Release amd64 (20240424)
SourcePackage: man-db
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: man-db (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug noble wayland-session
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man-db trigger for apt is excessively slow
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