I'm also affected by this bug. On my system, man-db crashes with a null pointer dereference processing /usr/share/man/man1/cpp-3.3.1.gz (I still have the obsolete cpp-3.3 package installed):
,---- | Current directory is /usr/local/src/deb-src/man-db/man-db-2.6.0.1/debian/build/src/.libs/ | GNU gdb (GDB) 7.2-debian | Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. | License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> | This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. | There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" | and "show warranty" for details. | This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu". | For bug reporting instructions, please see: | <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>... | Reading symbols from /usr/local/src/deb-src/man-db/man-db-2.6.0.1/debian/build/src/.libs/mandb...done. | (gdb) set args -pq | (gdb) run | Starting program: /usr/local/src/deb-src/man-db/man-db-2.6.0.1/debian/build/src/.libs/mandb -pq | | Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. | __strlen_sse2 () at ../sysdeps/i386/i686/multiarch/strlen.S:99 | 99 ../sysdeps/i386/i686/multiarch/strlen.S: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden. | in ../sysdeps/i386/i686/multiarch/strlen.S | (gdb) bt full | #0 __strlen_sse2 () at ../sysdeps/i386/i686/multiarch/strlen.S:99 | No locals. | #1 0xf7fb7ae2 in xstrdup (string=0x0) at ../../../../gnulib/lib/xmalloc.c:115 | No locals. | #2 0xf7fe5b66 in test_manfile (file=0xf8022c28 "/usr/share/man/man1/cpp-3.3.1.gz", path=0xf8005cb0 "/usr/share/man") at ../../../src/check_mandirs.c:270 | manpage_base = 0xf802270c "cpp-3.3" | ult = 0xf8022b28 "/usr/share/man/man1/cpp-3.3.1.gz" | lg = {type = 0, whatis = 0x0, filters = 0x0} | manpage = 0xf80226f8 "/usr/share/man/man1" | info = {next = 0x0, addr = 0x0, name = 0x0, ext = 0xf8022714 "1", sec = 0xf802270a "1", id = 65 'A', pointer = 0x0, comp = 0xf7fb7f12 "gz", filter = 0x0, whatis = 0x0, _st_mtime = 1167849766} | exists = <value optimized out> | buf = {st_dev = 2054, __pad1 = 12968, __st_ino = 6890, st_mode = 33188, st_nlink = 1, st_uid = 0, st_gid = 0, st_rdev = 0, __pad2 = 54536, st_size = 1641, st_blksize = 4096, st_blocks = 8, st_atim = {tv_sec = 1302574832, tv_nsec = 416259135}, st_mtim = {tv_sec = 1167849766, tv_nsec = 0}, st_ctim = {tv_sec = 1265816375, tv_nsec = 535079202}, st_ino = 6890} | len = <value optimized out> | ult_trace = {names = 0x0, len = 0, max = 0} | whatis = 0xf801fdd0 | #3 0xf7fe62a6 in add_dir_entries (path=0xf8005cb0 "/usr/share/man", catpath=0xf80047f0 "/var/cache/man", last=1302341635, create=0) at ../../../src/check_mandirs.c:347 | manpage = 0xf8022c28 "/usr/share/man/man1/cpp-3.3.1.gz" | newdir = 0xf80d8840 | dir = 0xf80d2c68 | #4 testmandirs (path=0xf8005cb0 "/usr/share/man", catpath=0xf80047f0 "/var/cache/man", last=1302341635, create=0) at ../../../src/check_mandirs.c:511 | dir = 0xf80c8c38 | mandir = <value optimized out> | stbuf = {st_dev = 2054, __pad1 = 38166, __st_ino = 4721, st_mode = 16877, st_nlink = 2, st_uid = 0, st_gid = 0, st_rdev = 0, __pad2 = 65535, st_size = 135168, st_blksize = 4096, st_blocks = 272, st_atim = {tv_sec = 1302596769, tv_nsec = 955417292}, st_mtim = {tv_sec = 1302596768, tv_nsec = 478750589}, st_ctim = {tv_sec = 1302596768, tv_nsec = 478750589}, st_ino = 4721} | amount = 3 | created = 0 | #5 0xf7fe6fa6 in update_db (manpath=0xf8005cb0 "/usr/share/man", catpath=0xf80047f0 "/var/cache/man") at ../../../src/check_mandirs.c:661 | key = {dptr = 0xf80a9d78 "\377\377\377\377vga_\260\210\021", dsize = 8} | content = {dptr = 0xf80f9378 "1302341635", dsize = 11} | new = <value optimized out> | #6 0xf7fec977 in update_db_wrapper (catpath=0xf80047f0 "/var/cache/man", manpath=0xf8005cb0 "/usr/share/man") at ../../../src/mandb.c:358 | amount = <value optimized out> | #7 mandb (catpath=0xf80047f0 "/var/cache/man", manpath=0xf8005cb0 "/usr/share/man") at ../../../src/mandb.c:489 | pid = "32733\000\000 \254\373\367\000\000\000\000\260\\\000\370\070\327\377\377" | ret = <value optimized out> | dbname = 0xf8004298 "/var/cache/man/index.db" | #8 0xf7fecea1 in process_manpath (manpath=0xf8005cb0 "/usr/share/man", global_manpath=1, tried_catdirs=0xf8005a10) at ../../../src/mandb.c:551 | ret = <value optimized out> | catpath = 0xf80047f0 "/var/cache/man" | tried = 0xf8005a28 | st = {st_dev = 2054, __pad1 = 50732, __st_ino = 521505, st_mode = 16877, st_nlink = 45, st_uid = 0, st_gid = 0, st_rdev = 0, __pad2 = 45896, st_size = 4096, st_blksize = 4096, st_blocks = 8, st_atim = {tv_sec = 1302574831, tv_nsec = 226259104}, st_mtim = {tv_sec = 1299654519, tv_nsec = 372378669}, st_ctim = {tv_sec = 1299654519, tv_nsec = 372378669}, st_ino = 521505} | amount = 0 | __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "process_manpath" | #9 0xf7fed720 in main (argc=2, argv=0xffffd9a4) at ../../../src/mandb.c:821 | global_manpath = 1 | ret = <value optimized out> | dir = <value optimized out> | subdirent = <value optimized out> | sys_manp = <value optimized out> | amount = <value optimized out> | mp = <value optimized out> | tried_catdirs = 0xf8005a10 | sa = {__sigaction_handler = {sa_handler = 0, sa_sigaction = 0}, sa_mask = {__val = {0 <repeats 32 times>}}, sa_flags = 0, sa_restorer = 0} | (gdb) `---- HTH, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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