Re: Bug#60399: crashes on installation
Daniel Martin (Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu) wrote:
> I seem to remember once upon a time that man would crash and burn if
> one somehow had a corrupt index.bt file. Could it be that a partially
> completed install produces such a corrupt file (i.e. could it be that
> whatever mandb does in the background is rebuilding this, and being
> only half-way done means the resulting file seems corrupt), and that
> an existing but corrupt index file causes havoc?
>
this would be unlikely. on all three of the machines i experienced this bug
on, man-db had never been installed before. completely virgin systems. i
tend to lean toward the idea that this is a kernel bug. i seem to remember
something on kernel traffic (kt.linuxcare.com) about a very rare bug that
rears it's ugly head with dpkg. can't find it now. then again, i guess
that's about as likely as solar flares...
anyone have any other guesses?
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