| 2012-05-18 10:26:04 |
Paul Crawford |
bug |
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added bug |
| 2012-05-18 11:13:48 |
Marius Margowski |
affects |
ubuntu |
man-db (Ubuntu) |
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| 2012-05-18 18:43:11 |
Nathan Stratton Treadway |
bug |
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added subscriber Nathan Stratton Treadway |
| 2012-05-20 20:21:01 |
Paul Crawford |
bug watch added |
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=162416 |
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| 2012-05-20 21:09:16 |
Launchpad Janitor |
man-db (Ubuntu): status |
New |
Confirmed |
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| 2012-05-20 21:58:55 |
Nathan Stratton Treadway |
summary |
'man' command fails with lseek error |
'man' command fails with lseek error opening cross-architecture index.db file (on network share) |
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| 2012-05-21 04:19:06 |
Nathan Stratton Treadway |
affects |
man-db (Ubuntu) |
gdbm (Ubuntu) |
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| 2012-05-21 04:21:00 |
Nathan Stratton Treadway |
affects |
gdbm (Ubuntu) |
man-db (Ubuntu) |
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| 2012-05-21 04:26:38 |
Nathan Stratton Treadway |
bug task added |
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gdbm (Ubuntu) |
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| 2012-05-21 04:27:07 |
Nathan Stratton Treadway |
gdbm (Ubuntu): status |
New |
Confirmed |
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| 2012-06-18 02:24:50 |
Colin Watson |
man-db (Ubuntu): status |
Confirmed |
Triaged |
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| 2012-06-18 02:24:55 |
Colin Watson |
man-db (Ubuntu): importance |
Undecided |
High |
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| 2012-06-18 03:28:22 |
Colin Watson |
man-db (Ubuntu): status |
Triaged |
Fix Committed |
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| 2012-06-18 03:28:22 |
Colin Watson |
man-db (Ubuntu): assignee |
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Colin Watson (cjwatson) |
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| 2012-06-18 03:29:05 |
Colin Watson |
nominated for series |
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Ubuntu Precise |
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| 2012-06-18 03:29:05 |
Colin Watson |
bug task added |
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gdbm (Ubuntu Precise) |
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| 2012-06-18 03:29:05 |
Colin Watson |
bug task added |
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man-db (Ubuntu Precise) |
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| 2012-06-18 03:29:28 |
Colin Watson |
bug task deleted |
gdbm (Ubuntu Precise) |
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| 2012-06-18 03:29:43 |
Colin Watson |
man-db (Ubuntu Precise): status |
New |
Triaged |
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| 2012-06-18 03:29:46 |
Colin Watson |
man-db (Ubuntu Precise): importance |
Undecided |
High |
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| 2012-06-18 03:29:51 |
Colin Watson |
gdbm (Ubuntu): status |
Confirmed |
Triaged |
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| 2012-06-18 03:29:54 |
Colin Watson |
gdbm (Ubuntu): importance |
Undecided |
Medium |
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| 2012-06-19 14:11:39 |
Launchpad Janitor |
man-db (Ubuntu): status |
Fix Committed |
Fix Released |
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| 2012-06-30 13:23:11 |
Launchpad Janitor |
branch linked |
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lp:debian/man-db |
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| 2012-11-22 10:18:41 |
Colin Watson |
description |
When trying to look up the on-line documentation using the 'man' command it fails on 12.04 with lseek error. For example:
$ man resolvconf
gdbm fatal: lseek error
This lseek error applies to other requests as well (e.g. ls, fdisk, etc). System information is:
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Release: 12.04
apt-cache policy man
man:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
However, it is installed since it runs as a command, and I find:
$ which man
/usr/bin/man
$ man --version
man 2.6.1
What I expect is to read the manual page appropriate to the command/program, and not get a software error. |
[Impact] Sharing a directory containing manual page databases between 32-bit and 64-bit systems can cause man to crash.
[Test Case] Configure a local manual page hierarchy (in ~/.manpath or otherwise), containing a single page. Run mandb over it from a 64-bit environment. Request that page using man from a 32-bit environment.
[Regression Potential] This code has been in 12.10 and Debian for quite a while, so I think it's pretty safe. If it fails, it'll be fairly obvious from routine use of man and mandb.
Original report follows:
When trying to look up the on-line documentation using the 'man' command it fails on 12.04 with lseek error. For example:
$ man resolvconf
gdbm fatal: lseek error
This lseek error applies to other requests as well (e.g. ls, fdisk, etc). System information is:
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Release: 12.04
apt-cache policy man
man:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
However, it is installed since it runs as a command, and I find:
$ which man
/usr/bin/man
$ man --version
man 2.6.1
What I expect is to read the manual page appropriate to the command/program, and not get a software error. |
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| 2012-11-22 10:18:46 |
Colin Watson |
man-db (Ubuntu Precise): status |
Triaged |
In Progress |
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| 2012-11-22 10:18:48 |
Colin Watson |
man-db (Ubuntu Precise): assignee |
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Colin Watson (cjwatson) |
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| 2012-11-22 10:18:50 |
Colin Watson |
man-db (Ubuntu Precise): milestone |
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ubuntu-12.04.2 |
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| 2012-12-28 16:21:23 |
Clint Byrum |
man-db (Ubuntu Precise): status |
In Progress |
Fix Committed |
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| 2012-12-28 16:21:25 |
Clint Byrum |
bug |
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added subscriber Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team |
| 2012-12-28 16:21:28 |
Clint Byrum |
bug |
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added subscriber SRU Verification |
| 2012-12-28 16:21:40 |
Clint Byrum |
tags |
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verification-needed |
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| 2012-12-28 16:47:50 |
Launchpad Janitor |
branch linked |
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lp:~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/precise/man-db/precise-proposed |
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| 2013-01-03 12:27:41 |
Colin Watson |
tags |
verification-needed |
verification-done |
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| 2013-01-07 13:23:37 |
Colin Watson |
removed subscriber Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team |
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| 2013-01-07 13:24:12 |
Launchpad Janitor |
man-db (Ubuntu Precise): status |
Fix Committed |
Fix Released |
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| 2013-01-10 13:07:09 |
glenn pender |
bug |
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added subscriber glenn pender |
| 2013-03-08 16:49:27 |
Marius B. Kotsbak |
bug |
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added subscriber Marius B. Kotsbak |
| 2018-02-09 20:43:27 |
Launchpad Janitor |
gdbm (Ubuntu): status |
Triaged |
Fix Released |
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