This bug was fixed in the package gdbm - 1.14.1-2ubuntu1
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gdbm (1.14.1-2ubuntu1) bionic; urgency=medium
* Don't build using dietlibc (universe).
-- Matthias Klose <d...@ubuntu.com> Thu, 01 Feb 2018 13:02:01 +0100
** Changed in: gdbm (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged => Fix Released
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1001189
Title:
'man' command fails with lseek error opening cross-architecture
index.db file (on network share)
Status in gdbm package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in man-db package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in man-db source package in Precise:
Fix Released
Bug description:
[Impact] Sharing a directory containing manual page databases between 32-bit
and 64-bit systems can cause man to crash.
[Test Case] Configure a local manual page hierarchy (in ~/.manpath or
otherwise), containing a single page. Run mandb over it from a 64-bit
environment. Request that page using man from a 32-bit environment.
[Regression Potential] This code has been in 12.10 and Debian for quite a
while, so I think it's pretty safe. If it fails, it'll be fairly obvious from
routine use of man and mandb.
Original report follows:
When trying to look up the on-line documentation using the 'man'
command it fails on 12.04 with lseek error. For example:
$ man resolvconf
gdbm fatal: lseek error
This lseek error applies to other requests as well (e.g. ls, fdisk,
etc). System information is:
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Release: 12.04
apt-cache policy man
man:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
However, it is installed since it runs as a command, and I find:
$ which man
/usr/bin/man
$ man --version
man 2.6.1
What I expect is to read the manual page appropriate to the
command/program, and not get a software error.
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