Updating database of manual pages error

[toadslabs]

When running dist-upgrade from elatte-testing to hardy-unstable received the following error.

Updating database of manual pages ...
ld.so.1: mandb: fatal: relocation error: file /usr/lib/man-db/mandb: symbol strsep: referenced symbol not found
/var/lib/dpkg/info/man-db.postinst: line 3: 7430 Killed perl -e '@pwd = getpwnam("man"); $( = $) = $pwd[3]; $< = $> = $pwd[2];
             exec "/usr/bin/mandb", @ARGV' -- "$@"

[anilg (anil-verve)]

To add to this, the user reported that the dist-upgrade otherwise completed successfully.

[toadslabs (toadslabs)]

The dist-upgrade did complete successfully, but the upgraded distribution was non functional and hung at startup. I would be surprised if it was impacted by this error, but I wanted to add the clarification.

[Erast (erast)]

Could you try to add -B pci-reprog=off to the kernel boot parameter in
the GRUB menu?

toadslabs wrote:
> The dist-upgrade did complete successfully, but the upgraded
> distribution was non functional and hung at startup. I would be
> surprised if it was impacted by this error, but I wanted to add the
> clarification.
>

[toadslabs (toadslabs)]

Sorry for taking a little while to check the proposed fix. The boot parameter fixed the issue and the system loaded successfully. I am getting an error "saslauthd start" failed with exit status 95 while booting, and in the upgrade there were some complaints about the keydb for saslauthd. Should I file this as a separate bug?

Also, should I look to make the change to the boot parameter permanent so that I can run the latest version (or can I help in debugging other things around the pci-reprog so that it can get fixed) ... if I need to set the parameter permanently, I am not sure how to do that in the context of apt-clone with grub. Can I just update /boot/grub/menu.lst?