[Bug 1858777] Re: Processing triggers for man-db lasting extremely long

[Tom Colley]

I tried one of the solutions/workarounds at
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/626866/processing-triggers-for-
man-db-not-building-database-man-db-auto-update-is-not The solution was
to run the following command to allow updates to man-db

sudo touch /var/lib/man-db/auto-update

This worked for me.

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Title:
  Processing triggers for man-db lasting extremely long

Status in man-db package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Installing any package is triggering man-db and it is taking 1 minute
  or more to complete stucking at following message:

  Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.0-2) ...

  There is no further message in journal or anywhere giving a clue about
  an underlying problem. The system is hosted on a SSD. During waiting
  time there is no process running high.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
  Package: man-db 2.9.0-2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-24.26-generic 5.3.10
  Uname: Linux 5.3.0-24-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair nvidia_modeset nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu15
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Wed Jan  8 11:13:00 2020
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-12-19 (20 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" - Release amd64 (20191017)
  SourcePackage: man-db
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2019-12-21 (17 days ago)

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