Control: tag -1 unreproducible Unfortunately, I can't reproduce this error. However, I've faced the other error related to dhelp's cron script. It fails to build a document index, and so search doesn't work. But at least the dhelp_parse utility can rebuild its documentation directory, and a home page is still available. It seems some of the next warnings aren't linked to dhelp.
But these issues are already reported, see Bug#803342 and Bug#889651. (dhelp)root@barberry:/# sh -x /etc/cron.weekly/dhelp + [ -d /var/lib/dhelp ] + [ -x /usr/sbin/dhelp_parse ] + [ -x /usr/bin/index++ ] + rm --force /var/lib/dhelp/documents.index + /usr/sbin/dhelp_parse -r /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/debian.rb:223: warning: parentheses after method name is interpreted as an argument list, not a decomposed argument /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/debian.rb:224: warning: parentheses after method name is interpreted as an argument list, not a decomposed argument /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/debian.rb:227: warning: parentheses after method name is interpreted as an argument list, not a decomposed argument /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/debian.rb:230: warning: parentheses after method name is interpreted as an argument list, not a decomposed argument /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/debian.rb:233: warning: parentheses after method name is interpreted as an argument list, not a decomposed argument /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/debian.rb:236: warning: parentheses after method name is interpreted as an argument list, not a decomposed argument /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/debian.rb:348: warning: parentheses after method name is interpreted as an argument list, not a decomposed argument /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/debian.rb:557: warning: parentheses after method name is interpreted as an argument list, not a decomposed argument /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/debian.rb:577: warning: parentheses after method name is interpreted as an argument list, not a decomposed argument /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/debian.rb:578: warning: parentheses after method name is interpreted as an argument list, not a decomposed argument /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/debian.rb:743: warning: parentheses after method name is interpreted as an argument list, not a decomposed argument /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/debian.rb:753: warning: parentheses after method name is interpreted as an argument list, not a decomposed argument /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/debian.rb:763: warning: parentheses after method name is interpreted as an argument list, not a decomposed argument /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/debian.rb:772: warning: parentheses after method name is interpreted as an argument list, not a decomposed argument /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/debian.rb:799: warning: parentheses after method name is interpreted as an argument list, not a decomposed argument /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/debian.rb:1004: warning: parentheses after method name is interpreted as an argument list, not a decomposed argument + /usr/sbin/dhelp_parse -i /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/debian.rb:223: warning: parentheses after method name is interpreted as an argument list, not a decomposed argument /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/debian.rb:224: warning: parentheses after method name is interpreted as an argument list, not a decomposed argument /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/debian.rb:227: warning: parentheses after method name is interpreted as an argument list, not a decomposed argument /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/debian.rb:230: warning: parentheses after method name is interpreted as an argument list, not a decomposed argument /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/debian.rb:233: warning: parentheses after method name is interpreted as an argument list, not a decomposed argument /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/debian.rb:236: warning: parentheses after method name is interpreted as an argument list, not a decomposed argument /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/debian.rb:348: warning: parentheses after method name is interpreted as an argument list, not a decomposed argument /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/debian.rb:557: warning: parentheses after method name is interpreted as an argument list, not a decomposed argument /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/debian.rb:577: warning: parentheses after method name is interpreted as an argument list, not a decomposed argument /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/debian.rb:578: warning: parentheses after method name is interpreted as an argument list, not a decomposed argument /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/debian.rb:743: warning: parentheses after method name is interpreted as an argument list, not a decomposed argument /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/debian.rb:753: warning: parentheses after method name is interpreted as an argument list, not a decomposed argument /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/debian.rb:763: warning: parentheses after method name is interpreted as an argument list, not a decomposed argument /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/debian.rb:772: warning: parentheses after method name is interpreted as an argument list, not a decomposed argument /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/debian.rb:799: warning: parentheses after method name is interpreted as an argument list, not a decomposed argument /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/debian.rb:1004: warning: parentheses after method name is interpreted as an argument list, not a decomposed argument terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::out_of_range' what(): basic_string::erase: __pos (which is 18446744073709551615) > this->size() (which is 8) Dhelp::IndexerError: Couldn't index /usr/share/doc/base-passwd/users-and-groups.html , /usr/share/doc/base-passwd/users-and-groups.html , /usr/share/doc/base-passwd/users-and-groups.txt.gz , /usr/share/doc/man-db/man-db-manual.ps.gz , /usr/share/doc/man-db/man-db-manual.txt.gz , /usr/share/doc/doc-base/doc-base.html/about.html , /usr/share/doc/doc-base/doc-base.html/index.html , /usr/share/doc/doc-base/doc-base.html/informations.html , /usr/share/doc/doc-base/doc-base.html/interface.html , /usr/share/doc/doc-base/doc-base.html/todo.html , /usr/share/doc/doc-base/doc-base.html/index.html , /usr/share/doc/doc-base/doc-base.txt.gz , /usr/share/doc/nano/faq.html , /usr/share/doc/nano/faq.html , /usr/share/doc/doc-base/install-docs.html , /usr/share/doc/doc-base/install-docs.html , /usr/share/doc/libpng16-16/libpng-manual.txt.gz , /usr/share/doc/po-debconf/manpages.vi/debconf-gettextize.1.html , /usr/share/doc/po-debconf/manpages.vi/debconf-updatepo.1.html , /usr/share/doc/po-debconf/manpages.vi/po-debconf.7.html , /usr/share/doc/po-debconf/manpages.vi/po2debconf.1.html , /usr/share/doc/po-debconf/manpages.vi/podebconf-display-po.1.html , /usr/share/doc/po-debconf/manpages.vi/podebconf-report-po.1.html using /usr/bin/index++ --config-file /usr/share/dhelp/config/swish++.conf --index-file /var/lib/dhelp/documents.index --follow-links - (/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/dhelp.rb:616:in `index' /usr/sbin/dhelp_parse:171:in `do_deferred_indexing' /usr/sbin/dhelp_parse:205:in `main' /usr/sbin/dhelp_parse:221:in `<main>') (dhelp)root@barberry:/# -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-116-generic (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=ru (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: unable to detect Versions of packages dhelp depends on: ii doc-base 0.10.8 ii libcgi-pm-perl 4.38-1 ii libdata-page-perl 2.02-1 ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-3+b2 ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.07-3+b3 ii libtemplate-perl 2.27-1 ii liburi-perl 1.73-1 ii perl 5.26.1-5 ii poppler-utils 0.62.0-2 ii pstotext 1.9-6+b2 ii ruby 1:2.5.1 ii ruby-debian 0.3.9+b8 ii ruby-gettext 3.2.9-1 ii swish++ 6.1.5-5 ii ucf 3.0038 dhelp recommends no packages. Versions of packages dhelp suggests: pn catdvi <none> pn httpd-cgi <none> pn info2www <none> pn man2html <none> pn www-browser | html2text <none> -- no debconf information
