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  1. Bug #1001189
  2. Comment #16

Comment 16 for bug 1001189

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Nathan Stratton Treadway (nathanst) wrote : Re: [Bug 1001189] Re: 'man' command fails with lseek error

On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 18:27:11 -0000, Paul Crawford wrote:
> still seems to be an issue where the 12.04 system is not handling the
> network mounted index.db file correctly, or at least, not handling
> database/format errors in any sort of elegant manner.

Okay, moving on to this question... it turns out there is an "accessdb"
command included with the man-db package that dumpts the contents of a
database file.

So, what happens when you run
  $ /usr/sbin/accessdb /packages/local/share/man/index.db
on your two machines?

I'm guessing it will fail on at least the Precise machine, but if it
succeeds on both, does it produce the same output in both cases?

What do the $mtime$ and $version$ fields show? (Looks like
Debian/Ubuntu have had $version$ of "2.4.1" for quite a while.)

       Nathan