Re: bin/46631: apropos always returns error

[Uwe Krüger <uwe_debbug%arcor.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/46631; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Uwe_Kr=FCger?= <uwe_debbug%arcor.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: dholland%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: bin/46631: apropos always returns error
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 20:31:19 +0200

 I have the same problem (NetBSD-6.1_RC1 amd64): "apropos <anything>" 
 aborts with the error:
 apropos: Unable to query schema version: disk I/O error
 
 In my case, the root cause of the problem is makemandb aborting with
 a memory fault at a specific manual page:
 
 # makemandb -f -v
 Building temporary file cache
 Parsing: /usr/share/man/man1/atari/msconfig.1
 ... lots of other manual pages ...
 Parsing: /usr/pkg/man/man1/ksh93.1
 Memory fault (core dumped)
 
 The error does not occur if I delete the package ast-ksh which provides
 the ksh93 manual page. Alternatively it is possible to remove the case
 differentiations at the beginning of the ksh93 manual page. (I'm not 
 really familiar with *roff-syntax, so I do not dare to submit a patch...)
 
 Best Regards,
 Uwe