Bug#576810: Workaround: delete the index

[Dominique Dumont]

On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:00:59 +0100 Michael Bunk - Computer Leipzig 
<mb at computer-leipzig.com> wrote:
> I had this problem as well.  As a workaround it helped to delete the old
> index:
> 
> 	rm  /usr/share/man/index_*
> 
> And build a new one:
> 
> 	perlindex -verbose -index
> 

The index files are now in /var/cache/perlindex

I had similar trouble after installing libfile-slurper-perl.

But I could *not* reproduce the issue after the following steps:
- remove libfile-slurper-perl
- index
- install libfile-slurper-perl
- index

The second step complained about unvalid data fed to unpack during garbage 
collection (line 170 of perlindex). Unfortunately, I've lost the actual error 
message

I also noticed that the index was missing entries.

I ended cleaning up the index as suggested and rebuilt the index from scratch.

I think my index files somehow got corrupted. May be, purging the index 
periodically should be suggested to user (or added in a cron job).

HTH
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