Thanks. This database is corrupt; accessdb can't open it, and gdb
indicates that the hash bucket storage is confused beyond words.

There are (at least) two bugs here. The first is that gdbm_store
segfaults when trying to insert a new entry into this database, rather
than exiting cleanly; I've created a new bug task for this. The second
is that, at least before gdbm started segfaulting, mandb should have
fallen back to creating the database from scratch. I'll see if I can at
least address the latter bug.

The possible third bug is why the database became corrupt in the first
place, but I doubt we can answer that now; it could have been filesystem
corruption due to e.g. a power failure.

In the meantime, run 'sudo -u man mandb --create --quiet' and that
should clear things up for you.

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man-db exits return code 139 and seg faults
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/200831
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