bin/46637: makemandb fails with segmentation fault

[nubisci%gmail.com@localhost]

>Number:         46637
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       makemandb fails with segmentation fault
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Jun 29 19:40:00 +0000 2012
>Originator:     I'Khala X
>Release:        6.99.7
>Organization:
LowTech Industries
>Environment:
[ronin:g95]# uname -a
NetBSD ronin.nubiscilabs.net 6.99.7 NetBSD 6.99.7 (RONIN) #0: Mon Jun  4 
11:43:47 EDT 2012  
toor%ronin.nubiscilabs.net@localhost:/usr/obj/sys/arch/amd64/compile/RONIN amd64

>Description:
I've been having issues with the new man pages for a few weeks now.  I 
submitted a pr about apropos, but the real issue seems to be with makemandb.  
It never completes and always fail with a "segmentation fault". 


>How-To-Repeat:
Note the following output ...
[ronin:/root]# ls /var/db/man*
/var/db/man.db  /var/db/man.db-journal
[ronin:/root]# rm -rf /var/db/man*
[ronin:/root]# makemandb -f
Building temporary file cache
makemandb: stat failed: /usr/share/man/man1/acroread.1: No such file or 
directory
makemandb: Error in indexing /usr/local/man/man1/vdcomp.1.gz
makemandb: /usr/share/man/man2/lstat.2: Parse failure
makemandb: Error in indexing /usr/share/man/man2/lstat.2
makemandb: /usr/share/man/man2/pathconf.2: Parse failure
makemandb: Error in indexing /usr/share/man/man2/pathconf.2
makemandb: /usr/share/man/man2/setpriority.2: Parse failure
makemandb: Error in indexing /usr/share/man/man2/setpriority.2
makemandb: /usr/share/man/man2/unmount.2: Parse failure
makemandb: Error in indexing /usr/share/man/man2/unmount.2
makemandb: Error in indexing /usr/share/man/man3/prop_array_get_cstring_nocopy.3
makemandb: Error in indexing 
/usr/share/man/man3/prop_dictionary_get_cstring_nocopy.3
Segmentation fault



>Fix:
Unknown.