Package: man-db Version: 2.5.6-4 Severity: important After the most recent upgrade (pure sid system), man-db hangs and consumes all available cpu.
$ sudo dpkg --configure -a Setting up man-db (2.5.6-4) ... Updating database of manual pages ... (open another console to see what's going on) PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 4311 man 20 0 22972 1516 484 R 101 0.1 25:27.68 mandb (wait at bit longer) PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 4311 man 20 0 22972 1516 484 R 99 0.1 30:21.86 mandb and so on... I can stop the installation with CTRL-C and see: $ sudo dpkg --configure -a Setting up man-db (2.5.6-4) ... Updating database of manual pages ... ^Cdpkg: error processing man-db (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script killed by signal (Interrupt) Errors were encountered while processing: man-db I then edited the postinst and removed the -q argument from the calls to run_mandb and received the following output: $ sudo dpkg --configure -a Setting up man-db (2.5.6-4) ... Updating database of manual pages ... Processing manual pages under /usr/share/man... Processing manual pages under /usr/share/man/zh_TW... Processing manual pages under /usr/share/man/vi... Processing manual pages under /usr/share/man/ko... Processing manual pages under /usr/share/man/ru... Processing manual pages under /usr/share/man/sv... Processing manual pages under /usr/share/man/de... Processing manual pages under /usr/share/man/it... Processing manual pages under /usr/share/man/tr... Processing manual pages under /usr/share/man/fr.UTF-8... Processing manual pages under /usr/share/man/ja... Updating index cache for path `/usr/share/man/ja/man5'. Wait... (and here it hung again) What other information would be helpful in tracking down this behavior? Thank you, Tony -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages man-db depends on: ii bsdmainutils 8.0.3 collection of more utilities from ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.28 Debian configuration management sy ii dpkg 1.15.5.5 Debian package management system ii groff-base 1.20.1-6 GNU troff text-formatting system ( ii libc6 2.10.2-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-9 GNU dbm database routines (runtime ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-1 compression library - runtime man-db recommends no packages. Versions of packages man-db suggests: ii groff 1.20.1-6 GNU troff text-formatting system ii less 436-1 pager program similar to more ii w3m [www-browser] 0.5.2-2.1 WWW browsable pager with excellent -- debconf information: man-db/install-setuid: false man-db/auto-update: true -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
