On Fri, 15 Aug 2025, Van Ly wrote:
The daily `makemandb -Q' drops core and gdb reads as follows.
Could that #2 line item be related to pkgsrc? as I've had to reset pkgsrc db
and re‑install in response to `pkgin ug' dropping core.
That's very likely a function called by parse_escape[1] which abort()s.
Core was generated by `makemandb'.
Program terminated with signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
(gdb) bt
#0 0x00007030ab57eeea in _lwp_kill () from /usr/lib/libc.so.12
#1 0x00007030ab5846e0 in abort () from /usr/lib/libc.so.12
#2 0x0000000185249cf5 in ?? ()
#3 0x000000018522b165 in parse_escape ()
#4 0x000000018522b307 in append ()
#5 0x000000018522b826 in pman_parse_node ()
#6 0x000000018522ac19 in proff_node ()
#7 0x000000018522abe2 in proff_node ()
#8 0x000000018524af12 in main ()
Can you unpack the debug set (even makemandb alone might do) and then run this
command:
```
# makemandb -fv > /tmp/m.txt 2>&1
```
That should show what file it's choking on.
Do the backtrace with the debug symbol unpacked, too.
-RVP
[1]:
https://github.com/NetBSD/src/blob/trunk/usr.sbin/makemandb/makemandb.c#L1995
