Re: man page errors
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 05:30:24PM +1100, Andrew Nesbit wrote:
> Whenever I try to view manpages that don't exist on my system, I get the
> following error:
>
> man: can't open /usr/X11R6/man/man1/bitmap.1x: No such file or directory
> man: warning: /usr/X11R6/man/man1/atobm.1x.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request
>
> and then I have to press ^C get back to the prompt, at which point I
> also get:
>
> man: can't remove /tmp/zmanBrjbA6: No such file or directory
Yeah, man-db in potato was pretty broken in a number of ways.
man-db in woody won't do this. Maybe I should produce a version
backported to potato?
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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