Debian bug report logs - #1735, boring messages

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Subject: Bug#1735: apropos(1) segfaults
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PACKAGE: man
VERSION: 2.3.10-2

Script started on Sun Oct 22 18:55:28 1995
root:/root# apropos inode
utime (2)            - change access and/or modification times of an inode
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
root:/root# apropos cat
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
root:/root# apropos crap
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
root:/root#
Script done on Sun Oct 22 18:55:58 1995

mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell)

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Subject: Bug#1735: Acknowledgement (was: apropos(1) segfaults)
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Subject: Bug#1735: apropos(1) segfaults
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Bill Mitchell writes:
> PACKAGE: man
> VERSION: 2.3.10-2
>
> Script started on Sun Oct 22 18:55:28 1995
> root:/root# apropos inode
> utime (2)            - change access and/or modification times of an inode
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> root:/root# apropos cat
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> root:/root# apropos crap
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> root:/root#
> Script done on Sun Oct 22 18:55:58 1995
>
> mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell)

I've had this problem before as well, but I discovered that the man database
was screwed up and forcing it to rebuild it with mandb fixed it. Still it
shouldn't really core dump even if the database is corrupt.

Andrew

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Andrew Howell				               andrew@it.com.au
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Andrew Howell writes ("Bug#1735: apropos(1) segfaults"):
> Bill Mitchell writes:
> > root:/root# apropos crap
> > Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> > root:/root#
> > Script done on Sun Oct 22 18:55:58 1995
>
> I've had this problem before as well, but I discovered that the man database
> was screwed up and forcing it to rebuild it with mandb fixed it. Still it
> shouldn't really core dump even if the database is corrupt.

Then there are at least two or three bugs:

1a. The database got corrupted.
1b. The database didn't get fixed because the corruption wasn't
    detected, or because no appropriate action was taken.  If
    corruption is made sufficiently rare then having it automatically
    un-corrupt it on demand is less necessary.  This is obviously
    better than having it get corrupted and then be fixed.

2. `apropos' dumps core when fed a corrupted database.

Ian.

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