Hi Austin,
> Package: man > Version: 2.3.10-2 > > 'man -k' and 'apropos' with a damaged or corrupted index.db > segfaults. This is not a very friendly error message. > > I have traced the problem to the following piece of code: > ... > > Could this infelicity be passed on to the upstream maintainer, please > ? Thankyou for your effort it is much appreciated - I will indeed forward this bug report on to the Wilf - the man_db creator. > Also, it might be nice to have a database consistancy checker, that > would tell you if a given database were consistant. Yes indeed - it might not be too hard to write. For the present it is not to hard to recreate the database if it is corrupted using mandb. Maybe the daily man cron job should recreate the database from scratch every night. The problem being that the database and the mandb program are not something common to all unix systems and mandb is initially run for the user by the post install script. Thus when something does go wrong users dont know where to look to fix things. A core dump doesnt immediately suggest the fix is to run the mandb program. I have heard several other people say they have had corrupt database files - how do they get corrupted? I have never managed to corrupt mine (but then I, as the package maintainer, wouldnt would I) alvar -- Alvar Bray Meiko Limited Phone: +44 1454 616171 650 Aztec West Fax: +44 1454 618188 Bristol BS12 4SD E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] England WWW: http://www.meiko.com Via: Debian GNU/Linux from home.
