| Summary: | rpm emits a mandb/col error on removing or installing joe and other packages | ||
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| Product: | Mageia | Reporter: | Shlomi Fish <shlomif> |
| Component: | RPM Packages | Assignee: | All Packagers <pkg-bugs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | Normal | CC: | lists.jjorge, marja11, thierry.vignaud |
| Version: | Cauldron | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Source RPM: | man-db | CVE: | |
| Status comment: | |||
Using which rpm? rpm-4.13.0.1-11.mga7 from core or rpm-4.13.90-0.git14002.12.mga7 from testing? Keywords:
(none) =>
NEEDINFO (In reply to Marja van Waes from comment #1) > Using which rpm? > > rpm-4.13.0.1-11.mga7 from core or > rpm-4.13.90-0.git14002.12.mga7 from testing? shlomif@telaviv1:~$ rpm -q rpm rpm-4.13.90-0.git14002.12.mga7 Thanks!
Thierry Vignaud
2017-08-24 16:45:31 CEST
Source RPM:
rpm =>
rpm-4.13.90-0.git14002.12.mga7, man-db still happens with rpm-4.14.1-3.mga7 - any news? That's a man-db issue, not a rpm one Source RPM:
rpm-4.13.90-0.git14002.12.mga7, man-db =>
man-db
Thierry Vignaud
2018-03-31 17:05:45 CEST
Assignee:
rpmstack =>
bugsquad (In reply to Thierry Vignaud from comment #5) > That's a man-db issue, not a rpm one Thanks for telling what the real culprit is :-) Assigning to all packagers collectively, even if you're the registered maintainer of man-db, because you obviously don't have time for this issue ;-) Assignee:
bugsquad =>
pkg-bugs Isn't that one fixed since the update to man-db-2.8.3-1.mga7? Keywords:
(none) =>
NEEDINFO (In reply to Thierry Vignaud from comment #7) > Isn't that one fixed since the update to man-db-2.8.3-1.mga7? sudo urpmi --auto --keep --resume --noclean --no-recommends --downloader wget --wget-options -c coreutils-doc WARNING: --keep option is in use. Some strange problems may happen http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib/cauldron/x86_64/media/core/release/coreutils-doc-8.29-1.mga7.noarch.rpm installing coreutils-doc-8.29-1.mga7.noarch.rpm from /var/cache/urpmi/rpms Preparing... ############################################# 1/1: coreutils-doc ############################################# col: write error /usr/bin/mandb: can't write to standard output /usr/bin/mandb: col: Segmentation fault (core dumped) shlomif@telaviv1:~$ rpm -q man-db man-db-2.8.3-1.mga7 I guess not. :(. Keywords:
NEEDINFO =>
(none) If at the same time we could prevent mandb update to be triggered for each urpmi split? It would be nice to only trigger at the end of all rpms install. CC:
(none) =>
lists.jjorge Fixed in man-db-2.8.4-1.mga7 Resolution:
(none) =>
FIXED |
Description of problem: On my mageia v7 x86-64 system, removing or installing "joe" (or other packages with manpages), gives me this error: root@telaviv1:~$ u joe sudo urpmi --auto --keep --resume --noclean --downloader wget --wget-options -c joe WARNING: --keep option is in use. Some strange problems may happen http://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/mageia/distrib/cauldron/x86_64/media/core/release/joe-4.4-1.mga7.x86_64.rpm installing joe-4.4-1.mga7.x86_64.rpm from /var/cache/urpmi/rpms Preparing... ############################################# 1/1: joe ############################################# col: write error /usr/bin/mandb: can't write to standard output /usr/bin/mandb: col: Segmentation fault (core dumped) root@telaviv1:~$ Also see: root@telaviv1:~$ rpm -e joe col: write error /usr/bin/mandb: can't write to standard output /usr/bin/mandb: col: Segmentation fault (core dumped) root@telaviv1:~$ rpm -Uvh /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/joe-4.4-1.mga7.x86_64.rpm Preparing... ################################# [100%] Updating / installing... 1:joe-4.4-1.mga7 ################################# [100%] col: write error /usr/bin/mandb: can't write to standard output /usr/bin/mandb: col: Segmentation fault (core dumped) root@telaviv1:~$ /usr/bin/mandb -q root@telaviv1:~$ Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Mageia v7 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. urpmi joe 2. urpme joe 3.