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mandb doesn't create index.db's ?!



Hi -

I'm having serious troubles with index databases after upgrading
from previous manpages and man-db (2.3.10-63 hamm version) to
manpages_1.19-1 and man-db_2.3.10-65. Ever since I'm unable to

generate the index.db files with "mandb --create". Last week I

asked debian-user for help, but I didn't get any response. 
That's the reason for asking debian-devel, instead.

Output of "mandb --create --debug":

found mandatory man directory /usr/man
found mandatory man directory /usr/X11R6/man
found mandatory man directory /usr/local/man
found manpath map /bin --> /usr/man
found manpath map /usr/bin --> /usr/man
found manpath map /sbin --> /usr/man
found manpath map /usr/sbin --> /usr/man
found manpath map /usr/local/bin --> /usr/local/man
found manpath map /usr/local/sbin --> /usr/local/man
found manpath map /usr/X11R6/bin --> /usr/X11R6/man
found manpath map /usr/bin/X11 --> /usr/X11R6/man
found manpath map /usr/games --> /usr/man
found manpath map /opt/bin --> /opt/man
found manpath map /opt/sbin --> /opt/man
found global mandir /usr/man mapped to catdir /var/catman
found global mandir /usr/local/man mapped to catdir /var/catman/local
found global mandir /usr/X11R6/man mapped to catdir /var/catman/X11R6

adding mandatory man directories

adding /usr/man to manpath
adding /usr/X11R6/man to manpath
adding /usr/local/man to manpath
manpath=/usr/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/X11R6/man
adding /usr/man to manpathlist
adding /usr/local/man to manpathlist
adding /usr/X11R6/man to manpathlist
0 man subdirectories contained newer manual pages.           
                                                          
0 manual pages and 0 stray cats were added.

With the exception of the last two lines everything seems to be
correct, but no index.db files are build in /usr/man, /usr/X11R6/man
,
/usr/local/man, nor /var/catman. Naturally "man -k" isn't working
as well !

If I understand the manpages of mandb correct, the flag --create
should create those index.db files. (BTW, --update doesn't work
as well.)

So, could someone help me. What's wrong in my approach ?

Thanx,

--
Michael

P.S. I'm not subcribed to debian-devel
                                                             
         


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