man-db returns termination message "Bad system call" and then terminates.

Bug #1792735 reported by Pavlushka
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man-db (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

man-db returns termination message "Bad system call" and then no other way but to press "q" to terminate the program.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: man-db 2.8.3-2
Uname: Linux 4.14.56-v8-e0d2b2b6df54+ aarch64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.3
Architecture: armhf
Date: Sun Sep 16 00:35:45 2018
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: man-db
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-09-07 (8 days ago)

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Pavlushka (pavelsayekat) wrote :
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Pavlushka (pavelsayekat) wrote :
summary: - man-db returns termination message "Bad system call"
+ man-db returns termination message "Bad system call" and then
+ terminates.
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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

Could you please add the -f option to the strace command you used and post the resulting trace? (Assuming it's still happening, since I've fixed various things since then.)

Changed in man-db (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for man-db (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in man-db (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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