Man-db crashes and installation of packages hangs during post-install. I am using Debian Jessie 3.16.7-ckt4-3 i386 under VirtualBox Console: "INFO: task mandb:16293 blocked for more than 120 seconds" Logs: Feb 11 18:29:21 debian kernel: [ 2880.123977] mandb D 00000046 0 16293 15807 0x00000000 Feb 11 18:29:21 debian kernel: [ 2880.123983] f3d89e44 00000046 f6f41010 00000046 00000000 c170e280 c170e280 f3d89df0 Feb 11 18:29:21 debian kernel: [ 2880.123989] c147c088 f75ec280 f6f41010 c147b7bc f6199100 00000000 5f388045 c16571c0 Feb 11 18:29:21 debian kernel: [ 2880.123993] f5a23340 00000001 bfcbf000 80000000 f6193500 f6db3608 bfcc1000 f3d89e2c Feb 11 18:29:21 debian kernel: [ 2880.123999] Call Trace: Feb 11 18:29:21 debian kernel: [ 2880.124008] [<c147c088>] ? smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x38/0x50 Feb 11 18:29:21 debian kernel: [ 2880.124012] [<c147b7bc>] ? apic_timer_interrupt+0x34/0x3c Feb 11 18:29:21 debian kernel: [ 2880.124018] [<c113b0bb>] ? unmap_single_vma+0x44b/0x760 Feb 11 18:29:21 debian kernel: [ 2880.124022] [<c147a075>] ? rwsem_down_write_failed+0x165/0x260 Feb 11 18:29:21 debian kernel: [ 2880.124027] [<c125acf2>] ? call_rwsem_down_write_failed+0x6/0x8 Feb 11 18:29:21 debian kernel: [ 2880.124031] [<c1479ac5>] ? down_write+0x25/0x40 Feb 11 18:29:21 debian kernel: [ 2880.124034] [<c1146f5b>] ? unlink_anon_vmas+0x5b/0x160 Feb 11 18:29:21 debian kernel: [ 2880.124037] [<c113a971>] ? free_pgtables+0x81/0xf0 Feb 11 18:29:21 debian kernel: [ 2880.124040] [<c1143862>] ? exit_mmap+0x82/0x120 Feb 11 18:29:21 debian kernel: [ 2880.124046] [<c1054327>] ? mmput+0x57/0xf0 Feb 11 18:29:21 debian kernel: [ 2880.124050] [<c1058c68>] ? do_exit+0x218/0x900 Feb 11 18:29:21 debian kernel: [ 2880.124053] [<c116c1b3>] ? vfs_write+0x143/0x1d0 Feb 11 18:29:21 debian kernel: [ 2880.124057] [<c10593c4>] ? do_group_exit+0x34/0xa0 Feb 11 18:29:21 debian kernel: [ 2880.124060] [<c1059446>] ? SyS_exit_group+0x16/0x20 Feb 11 18:29:21 debian kernel: [ 2880.124064] [<c147ae5f>] ? sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x12
This bug can be closed, because it does not directly concern the man-db. Hangs during packages installation are caused by another problem, possibly related to VirtualBox. [720.119857] ca-certificates D c1657c44 0 5246 5244 0x00000000 [720.119862] f4903d94 00000082 f5054ab0 c1657c44 00000001 c170e280 c170e280 00000000 [720.119866] 0000007b f75de280 f5054ab0 c16571c0 00000000 00000000 c1254011 c1657540 [720.119871] f5fa1620 00000001 bfede000 80000000 bfedf000 f6980cf0 f4903d7c c10524ec [720.119876] Call Trace: [720.119882] [<c1254011>] ? radix_tree_lookup_slot+0x11/0x30 [720.119885] [<c10524ec>] ? __kunmap_atomic+0x5c/0x80 [720.119889] [<c113b0bb>] ? unmap_single_vma+0x44b/0x760 [720.119892] [<c147a075>] ? rwsem_down_write_failed+0x165/0x260 [720.119895] [<c125acf2>] ? call_rwsem_down_write_failed+0x6/0x8 [720.119898] [<c1479ac5>] ? down_write+0x25/0x40 [720.119901] [<c1146f5b>] ? unlink_anon_vmas+0x5b/0x160 [720.119904] [<c113a971>] ? free_pgtables+0x81/0xf0 [720.119906] [<c1143862>] ? exit_mmap+0x82/0x120 [720.119910] [<c1054327>] ? mmput+0x57/0xf0 [720.119913] [<c1171a74>] ? flush_old_exec+0x364/0x6d0 [720.119916] [<c11afc6a>] ? load_elf_binary+0x23a/0x11c0 [720.119919] [<c1139141>] ? kmap_high+0x21/0x1f0 [720.119922] [<c1138daa>] ? page_address+0xba/0xd0 [720.119925] [<c1138ddf>] ? kunmap_high+0x1f/0xb0 [720.119928] [<c117120d>] ? copy_strings+0x1fd/0x250 [720.119931] [<c117138d>] ? search_binary_handler+0x7d/0x1a0 [720.119934] [<c117240e>] ? do_execve_common+0x3fe/0x540 [720.119937] [<c1172721>] ? SyS_execve+0x21/0x30 [720.119940] [<c147ae5f>] ? sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x12