On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 2:30 AM, Abhinav Upadhyay
<er.abhinav.upadhyay%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
The following reply was made to PR bin/46637; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Abhinav Upadhyay <er.abhinav.upadhyay%gmail.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: bin/46637: makemandb fails with segmentation fault
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 11:55:48 +0530
On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 1:10 AM, <nubisci%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>>Number: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 46637
>>Category: =A0 =A0 =A0 bin
>>Synopsis: =A0 =A0 =A0 makemandb fails with segmentation fault
>>Confidential: =A0 no
>>Severity: =A0 =A0 =A0 serious
>>Priority: =A0 =A0 =A0 medium
>>Responsible: =A0 =A0bin-bug-people
>>State: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0open
>>Class: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0sw-bug
>>Submitter-Id: =A0 net
>>Arrival-Date: =A0 Fri Jun 29 19:40:00 +0000 2012
>>Originator: =A0 =A0 I'Khala X
>>Release: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A06.99.7
>>Organization:
> LowTech Industries
>>Environment:
> [ronin:g95]# uname -a
> NetBSD ronin.nubiscilabs.net 6.99.7 NetBSD 6.99.7 (RONIN) #0: Mon Jun =A0=
4 11:43:47 EDT 2012 =A0toor%ronin.nubiscilabs.net@localhost:/usr/obj/sys/arch/amd64/c=
ompile/RONIN amd64
>
>>Description:
> I've been having issues with the new man pages for a few weeks now. =A0I =
submitted a pr about apropos, but the real issue seems to be with makemandb=
. =A0It 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 =A0/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 d=
irectory
> 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_n=
ocopy.3
> makemandb: Error in indexing /usr/share/man/man3/prop_dictionary_get_cstr=
ing_nocopy.3
> Segmentation fault
>
>
>
>>Fix:
> Unknown.
>
Are you having the current copies of the man pages ? Many of those man
pages were fixed to let makemandb index them without any errors. I
just upgraded my NetBSD installation to 6.99.8 and ran makemand, no
problems here.
Also, use the -v flag for verbose output from makemandb when reporting
a bug. It would help in identifying which page exactly caused the
segfault. :-)
Thanks
Abhinav