[Bug 1001189] Re: 'man' command fails with lseek error opening cross-architecture index.db file (on network share)

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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 <doko at ubuntu.com>  Thu, 01 Feb 2018 13:02:01 +0100

** Changed in: gdbm (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => Fix Released

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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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