Bug 17192

Summary:	man crashes after upgrade to man-1.5h1-2.5.x
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	mal
Component:	man	Assignee:	Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	5.2	CC:	jeremy, petr.novotny
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Description mal 2000-09-02 22:25:04 UTC

After applying all updates
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/updates/5.2/i386/* 
from RedHat 5.2
man crashes on avery request
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/updates/5.2/i386/man-1.5h1-2.5.x.i386.rpm 
man man
Segmentation fault
gdb man
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(no debugging symbols found)...
(gdb) run man
Starting program: /usr/bin/man man

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x4002b434 in __open_catalog (catalog=0x80624d0, with_path=1)
    at open_catalog.c:91
open_catalog.c:91: No such file or directory.
(gdb) bt
#0  0x4002b434 in __open_catalog (catalog=0x80624d0, with_path=1)
    at open_catalog.c:91
#1  0x4002b157 in catgets (catalog_desc=0x80624d0, set=2, message=40, 
    string=0x804e983 "") at catgets.c:137
#2  0x804d584 in _start ()
#3  0x804d5e0 in _start ()
#4  0x804a1c2 in _start ()
#5  0x804a43b in _start ()
#6  0x804a540 in _start ()
#7  0x804a859 in _start ()
#8  0x804b087 in _start ()
(gdb)

Comment 1 mal 2000-09-02 22:32:54 UTC

after downgrade to
man-1.5f-1.i386.rpm
man works OK

Comment 2 mal 2000-09-02 22:34:49 UTC

In addition:
some files in new man package in the directory
/var/catman/cat1/
have rw-rw-rw permissions
what is incorrect.

Comment 3 Need Real Name 2000-09-04 19:18:34 UTC

A backtrace of this problem, which I am also experiencing, with a version of 
this RPM built with debugging symbols, shows that we are crashing with glibc 
(!).  Specifically, in __open_catalog(), which is called by catgets().  Here's 
the trace:

#0  0x40029434 in __open_catalog (catalog=0x80888b8, with_path=1)
    at open_catalog.c:91
#1  0x40029157 in catgets (catalog_desc=0x80888b8, set=2, message=40, 
    string=0x804e983 "") at catgets.c:137
#2  0x804d584 in getmsg (n=40) at gripes.c:67
#3  0x804d5e0 in gripe (n=40) at gripes.c:85
#4  0x804a1c2 in make_cat_file (path=0x8088668 "/usr/man", 
    man_file=0x80886c8 "/usr/man/man1/man.1.gz", 
    cat_file=0x8088738 "/var/catman/cat1/man.1.gz") at man.c:694
#5  0x804a43b in make_and_display_cat_file (path=0x8088668 "/usr/man", 
    man_file=0x80886c8 "/usr/man/man1/man.1.gz") at man.c:783
#6  0x804a540 in format_and_display (
    man_file=0x8088678 "/usr/man/man1/man.1.gz") at man.c:844
#7  0x804a859 in man (name=0xbffffe39 "man", section=0x0) at man.c:961
#8  0x804b087 in main (argc=2, argv=0xbffffd24) at man.c:1177

Comment 4 Need Real Name 2000-09-05 08:57:47 UTC

This behaviour seems to have been triggered by upgrade to glibc. Everything 
worked OK untill yesterday with glibc-2.0.7-19. However, after upgrade to 
current glibc-2.0.7-29, man doesn't work anymore. That kinda sucks.

Comment 5 Need Real Name 2000-09-06 07:21:51 UTC

This bug is a duplicate of bug 17187. Hello, maintainer, please mark it as such.

Comment 6 Jeff Johnson 2000-10-06 22:18:18 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 17187 ***