Hi again, here is some debugging info:
# strace dochelp update [...] openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/doc/lilypond/html/Documentation", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_CLOEXEC|O_DIRECTORY) = 3 fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=12288, ...}) = 0 getdents64(3, /* 312 entries */, 32768) = 8256 getdents64(3, /* 0 entries */, 32768) = 0 close(3) = 0 lstat("/usr/share/doc/lintian/lintian.rst.gz", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=13340, ...}) = 0 mmap(NULL, 1964723146752, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = -1 ENOMEM (Cannot allocate memory) brk(0x57cf5391a000) = 0x5605e0f1a000 mmap(NULL, 1964723277824, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = -1 ENOMEM (Cannot allocate memory) write(2, "Fatal error: ", 13Fatal error: ) = 13 write(2, "out of memory", 13out of memory) = 13 write(2, "\n", 1 ) = 1 exit_group(2) = ? +++ exited with 2 +++ -- Laurent.