[Bug 1443604] [NEW] "catman: man command failed with exit status 3" when updating apropos database

[jdb2]

Public bug reported:

1) The version and edition of Linux Mint you are using (if you are not
sure, open a terminal and run "mintwelcome"). :


uname -a :

Linux mint 3.13.0-37-generic #64-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 22 21:28:38 UTC 2014
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux


lsb_release -a :

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	LinuxMint
Description:	Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca
Release:	17.1
Codename:	rebecca


2) What you did for the problem to happen, and how to reproduce it.


Open a terminal and type "sudo catman" It's reproducible as it fails with the same error everytime 


3) What happened.

man: command exited with status 127: /usr/bin/zsoelim | /usr/lib/man-db/manconv -f UTF-8:ISO-8859-1 -t ANSI_X3.4-1968//IGNORE | tbl | nroff -mandoc -Tascii | iconv -c -f ANSI_X3.4-1968 -t UTF-8//TRANSLIT | gzip -c7
catman: man command failed with exit status 3


4) What you expected to happen instead.


catman should have rebuilt the database related to apropos and whatis without failure


5) If the problem happened once, sometimes, or always.


Always.

** Affects: linuxmint
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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


** Tags: apropos catman database failed man man-db whatis

** Attachment added: "Package and system information generated using apport-cli , apt-cache policy ,  apt-cache show , uname -a  and lsb_release -a"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1443604/+attachment/4374282/+files/catman-bug.tar.bz2

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

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Title:
  "catman: man command failed with exit status 3" when updating apropos
  database

Status in The Linux Mint Distribution:
  New
Status in man-db package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  1) The version and edition of Linux Mint you are using (if you are not
  sure, open a terminal and run "mintwelcome"). :

  
  uname -a :

  Linux mint 3.13.0-37-generic #64-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 22 21:28:38 UTC
  2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

  
  lsb_release -a :

  No LSB modules are available.
  Distributor ID:	LinuxMint
  Description:	Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca
  Release:	17.1
  Codename:	rebecca

  
  2) What you did for the problem to happen, and how to reproduce it.

  
  Open a terminal and type "sudo catman" It's reproducible as it fails with the same error everytime 

  
  3) What happened.

  man: command exited with status 127: /usr/bin/zsoelim | /usr/lib/man-db/manconv -f UTF-8:ISO-8859-1 -t ANSI_X3.4-1968//IGNORE | tbl | nroff -mandoc -Tascii | iconv -c -f ANSI_X3.4-1968 -t UTF-8//TRANSLIT | gzip -c7
  catman: man command failed with exit status 3

  
  4) What you expected to happen instead.

  
  catman should have rebuilt the database related to apropos and whatis without failure

  
  5) If the problem happened once, sometimes, or always.

  
  Always.

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