Re: apropos: warning: can't read the fallback whatis text database.
On debian-user-digest "Heiko R. Selber" wrote:
> Hello,
>
> when looking for manpages with apropos I always get an error message and
> the wildcard search fails for X related (and some other) man pages.
>
> (I use Debian 1.1.4)
>
> Look at this:
>
> ---- BEGIN pretty good example ----
> rudi:~$ apropos -w XDraw*
> apropos: warning: can't read the fallback whatis text database.
> apropos: /usr/X11/man/whatis: No such file or directory
> XDraw*: nothing appropriate.
>
> rudi:~$ apropos XDrawPoint
> XDrawPoint (3x) - draw points and points structure
> apropos: warning: can't read the fallback whatis text database.
> apropos: /usr/X11/man/whatis: No such file or directory
> ----- END pretty good example -----
>
> How do I create the fallback whatis database? Do I need it?
It should be created automatically.
Go superuser and try mandb -c
What version of apropos are you running?
Try apropos --version or dpkg -s man
ciao,
Fabrizio
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H C Lai wrote:
> Thanks for all the replies so far. The impression I get is that
> Linux does support the 'over-commitment' mode. Kernel 2.0.0 definitely
> does not support this. I have a ~10 lines of small fortran test
> programme which basically creates a HUGE array in a common block and
> then tries to use a small part of it. It failed with segmentation
> fault on elf. But succeeds by just putting in more swap !!
Hmmm. I suspect that Fortran is trying to help you out by initializing
the array elements to zero. Try a C program with "malloc".
... Ami.
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