Bug#2607: man and mandb invocation error
Hi,
I have additional information. Since I was getting fed-up
having to always use nroff -Tascii -man, I looked at the errors
generated by mandb. Since it said that it couldn't stat
/usr/man/i486-unknown-linux, /usr/local/man/i486-unknown-linux, and
/usr/X11R6/i486-unknown-linux, I decided to give it directories to
stat. Sure enough, happy with a stat-able (though empty) direcory,
mandb did it's stuff and ran to completion. Unfortunately, man would
still not work, and it's debug output indicated that the new, empty,
i486-unknown-linux directories were the _only_ ones in it's path. So,
I removed the direcories, and created symbolic links so:
% (cd /usr/man; ln -s . i486-unknown-linux)
% (cd /usr/local/man; ln -s . i486-unknown-linux)
% (cd /usr/X11R6/man; ln -s . i486-unknown-linux)
Now my man system works fine (you know what I mean) the problem
still exists with the latest version; I am using
ii man 2.3.10-11 Display the on-line manual.
Now that things work, this is not so critical for me, but this
should not be happening (Or is it just me? I run a debian only
[bleeding edge debian, but a debian system] apart from the fact
that I use a 1.3.84 kernel).
Hope this helps,
manoj
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Manoj Srivastava Systems Research Programmer, Project Pilgrim,
Phone: (413) 545-3918 A143B Lederle Graduate Research Center,
Fax: (413) 545-1249 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003
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