[Bug 1001189] Re: 'man' command fails with lseek error opening cross-architecture index.db file (on network share)

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This bug was fixed in the package man-db - 2.6.2-1

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man-db (2.6.2-1) unstable; urgency=low


  * New upstream release:
    - Optimise apropos when given many arguments (LP: #927028).
    - apropos prints an error message and returns non-zero when it finds no
      matches (closes: #672661).
    - Avoid fatal errors when opening a 64-bit GDBM database from a 32-bit
      process (LP: #1001189).
  * Configure with --with-xz=xz --with-lzip=lzip.
  * Adjust debian/watch to track .tar.xz releases.
  * Convert debian/copyright to copyright-format 1.0.
  * Override hardening-no-fortify-functions Lintian warning for
    /usr/bin/manpath, as a false positive.

 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson at debian.org>  Mon, 18 Jun 2012 22:56:56 +0100

** Changed in: man-db (Ubuntu)
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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Title:
  'man' command fails with lseek error opening cross-architecture
  index.db file (on network share)

Status in “gdbm” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “man-db” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “man-db” source package in Precise:
  Triaged

Bug 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.

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