on Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 04:25:01AM -0500, Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org) wrote: > On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 12:37:05AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > My suggestion: > > > > - rename /usr/X11R6/man/man3 to /usr/X11/man/man3-bak > > > > - create a directory /usr/X11R6/man/man3 > > > > - create symlinks for half the files in man3-bak: > > > > $ cd /usr/X11R6/man/man3 > > $ for file in $( ls ../man3-bak/* | head -495 ); > > do > > ln -s "$file" "$( basename file )" > > done > > > > - re-run mandb. If you get the problem, remove half the files and > > try again. If you don't get the problem, replace the 'head' above > > with 'tail', and see if it appears. > > > > - If you can't repeat the problem, then we've found something that > > works. > > I'm afraid none of that will work - it turns out it's the database > (/var/cache/man/X11R6/index.bt) that's broken, not the man pages. How did you determine this? -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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