[Bug 1001189] [NEW] 'man' command fails with lseek error

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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.

** Affects: man-db (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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'man' command fails with lseek error
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1001189
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