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man-db package

  1. Bug #1001189
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 1001189

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Paul Crawford (psc-sat) wrote : Re: 'man' command fails with lseek error

The id command shows:

$ id
uid=xxx05(opr) gid=xxx00(local) groups=xxx00(local),4(adm),20(dialout),109(lpadmin),501(operadores),502(vboxuser),xxx03(hrpt),xxx04(dosgroup),xxx07(vboxsf)

(with xxx replacing various numeric values that our sysadmin don't want on a public forum)

The copy works without issue:

$ \cp --verbose /var/cache/man/index.db /dev/null
`/var/cache/man/index.db' -> `/dev/null'

Where 'cp' is normally aliased to 'cp -ip' so it squawks about /dev/null existing, and that it can't preserve timestamps, hence the '\cp'.

The obvious permissions are fine, all users can read the file:

$ ls -l /var/cache/man/index.db
-rw-r--r-- 1 man root 634842 May 18 12:30 /var/cache/man/index.db