FS#57557 - [man-db] man: tbl: Bad system call (core dumped)

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by John Sivak (jsivak) - Sunday, 18 February 2018, 00:55 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Thursday, 01 March 2018, 07:26 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

When issuing any "man" call I get the following:

man: tbl: Bad system call (core dumped)
man: nroff: Bad system call (core dumped)
man: preconv: Bad system call (core dumped)

followed by:

man: command exited with status 159: /usr/lib/man-db/zsoelim | /usr/lib/man-db/manconv -f UTF-8:ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8//IGNORE | preconv -e UTF-8 | tbl | nroff -mandoc -rLL=126n -rLT=126n -Tutf8


Additional info:
* versions affected: man-db 2.8.0 and man-db 2.8.1-1

Steps to reproduce:

man man

Originally I though this was related to bug  FS#57436  (https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/57436 ), but when that bug was resolved with the relase of man-db 2.8.0-1, my issue didn't get resolved.

I found this Debian bug report https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=889608 and using:

MAN_DISABLE_SECCOMP=1 man man

then the man page works as expected.

I do not have any apparmor packages installed (that I'm aware of), so I'm not sure why this is impacting my system.
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Closed by  Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Thursday, 01 March 2018, 07:26 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  2.8.2-1
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Sunday, 18 February 2018, 02:23 GMT
Do you have groff installed?
Comment by John Sivak (jsivak) - Sunday, 18 February 2018, 04:15 GMT
Yes, version 1.22.3-7
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Sunday, 18 February 2018, 04:54 GMT
Can you check the files with "pacman -Qk groff"?
Comment by John Sivak (jsivak) - Sunday, 18 February 2018, 06:05 GMT
/home/jsivak $ sudo pacman -Qk groff
groff: 624 total files, 0 missing files
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Sunday, 18 February 2018, 08:24 GMT
Please ask at the man-db mailing list. Looks you hit another upstream bug here.
Comment by John Sivak (jsivak) - Sunday, 18 February 2018, 15:56 GMT
Thanks, I've replied to the closed issue: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=889608 and will see how they want me to proceed.
Comment by loqs (loqs) - Sunday, 18 February 2018, 18:03 GMT
debian is another downstream packager of man-db like arch. As you are not using debian or man-db as built and packaged by debian would
expect them to refer you to upstream as AndyRTR already has. Upstream is http://www.nongnu.org/man-db/development.html
You might want to include the backtrace from the coredump or an strace of a run of man so upstream can see which system call is triggering seccomp.
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Sunday, 18 February 2018, 18:51 GMT
loqs, it's ok here to post to the Debian tracker though upstream would be the better place. The Debian package maintainer is here the upstream developer in one person.

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