mandb crashed with SIGSEGV in _gdbm_alloc()

[piti]

Binary package hint: man-db

This produces while booting (ubuntu-gutsy)
this is the new bug-report tool that makes me know there was a problem (expect I saw the boot time was sometime strangely long)

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Thu Sep 27 09:31:31 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/man-db/mandb
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: man-db 2.4.4-3
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/mandb --no-purge --quiet
ProcCwd: /usr/share/man
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/sh
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: man-db
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgdbm.so.3
 _gdbm_alloc () from /usr/lib/libgdbm.so.3
 gdbm_store () from /usr/lib/libgdbm.so.3
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
Title: mandb crashed with SIGSEGV in _gdbm_alloc()
Uname: Linux ubuntu 2.6.22-12-generic #1 SMP Sun Sep 23 20:03:18 GMT 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux
UserGroups:

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StacktraceTop:?? () from /usr/lib/libgdbm.so.3
_gdbm_alloc () from /usr/lib/libgdbm.so.3
gdbm_store () from /usr/lib/libgdbm.so.3
dbstore (in=0x7fffefa7ff50, basename=0x695270 "") at db_store.c:186
store_descriptions (head=<value optimized out>, info=0x7fffefa7ff50, base_name=0x689604 "") at descriptions_store.c:90

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Hmm, I don't see anything particularly wrong with the stacktrace; this must be some kind of latent memory corruption.

Could you please install the 'valgrind' package and run:

  sudo -u man valgrind /usr/bin/mandb --no-purge --quiet >mandb.valgrind 2>&1

... and attach the resulting mandb.valgrind to this bug?

(valgrind has some problems in Gutsy at the moment, so we may have to wait until a bit later and go through this a few times before we get decent results, unfortunately.)

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Hi,

Any progress on this? I can't do very much (except by accident) without the information I asked for.