Segfault problem with man -k "map "

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, Jeff Vian wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 18:35 +0100, nodata wrote:
> > On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 09:16 -0500, Neo Anderson wrote:
> > > I am running FC3 inside Microsoft Virtual PC 2004/SP1 and my kernel is
> > > the latest 2.6.9-1.724_FC3.
> > >
> > > A copy of the output after run the command:
> > >
> > > [neo at fedora ~]$ man -k "map "
> > > sh: /unsafe/: No such file or directory
> > > Error executing formatting or display command.
> > > System command /unsafe/ exited with status 32512.
> > > Segmentation fault
> > >
> > > Does this mean anything special to security? It is a bug?
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Bugzilla it. "Nothing should segfault."
> >
>
> Did the segfault occur as a result of the Linux install and (not so)
> native access to hardware, or as a result of the environment?? (you said
> "I am running FC3 inside Microsoft Virtual PC 2004/SP1")
>
> Does the same command cause the same results when running with an
> identical install on identical hardware native and not inside the
> "virtual PC" environment?
>
> Segfaults should not occur, but you need to be able to identify whether
> it is the software that caused it or the environment that caused it.

Happens to me to, on a bare-metal Thinkpad T41.  I think it's probably
software.  man -k "map" (no blank space) works just fine.

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		Matthew Saltzman

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