Package: man-db Version: 2.8.4-2+b1 Severity: serious File: /usr/bin/mandb Hello,
I am no longer able to install many packages. The man-db hook keeps running and running for ages. I have monitored it with strace and it seems to run over the same files in man1 folder all over again, never ending. See the logs (also filtered for open* syscalls): https://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~bloch/misc/wtf_mandb_dead_loop.txt.gz https://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~bloch/misc/wtf_mandb_dead_loop.strace.log Best regards, Eduard. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-rc8 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages man-db depends on: ii bsdmainutils 11.1.2+b1 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.69 ii dpkg 1.19.2 ii groff-base 1.22.3-10 ii libc6 2.27-6 ii libgdbm6 1.18-2 ii libpipeline1 1.5.0-1 ii libseccomp2 2.3.3-3 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-1 man-db recommends no packages. Versions of packages man-db suggests: ii apparmor 2.13-8 ii chromium [www-browser] 70.0.3538.54-2 ii elinks [www-browser] 0.12~pre6-13 ii firefox [www-browser] 62.0.3-1 ii firefox-esr [www-browser] 60.2.2esr-1 ii groff 1.22.3-10 ii less 487-0.1+b1 ii lynx [www-browser] 2.8.9rel.1-2 ii qupzilla [www-browser] 2.2.5~dfsg1-1 ii w3m [www-browser] 0.5.3-36+b1 -- debconf information: man-db/build-database: true man-db/rebuild-database: true * man-db/install-setuid: true man-db/auto-update: true -- Naja, Garbage Collector eben. Holt den Müll sogar vom Himmel. (Heise Trollforum über Java in der Flugzeugsteuerung)
