Re: man gives segmentation fault
On Fri, 8 Aug 1997 05:50:27 +1000 (EST), you wrote:
>> > I am running Debian 1.3.1, and recently trying to run man gives a
>> > segmentation fault when run as a normal user (but not when run as root):
>> >
>> > % man man
>> > Segmentation fault
>>
>> This happened to me too. I did not try any of the diagnostics you describe.
>> I manually ftp'ed the man-db package and reinstalled it with dpkg -i.
>> I dont know what caused the problem, but that fixed it.
>
>I had this problem, it occurred when I Ctl-C'd man while it was trying to
>update it various caches and indicies. I then strace'd man (while I was
>root), and noticed that after a certain cache file man failed. If you can
>find out which file it is, delete it. Man has been working fine for me,
>since then.
I had the same problem. It can be probably fixed easiest by running the
script from cron-monthly (or was it cron-weekly) that cleans up and
rebuilds the man database as root.
If it is really caused by Ctrl-c, somebody should probably file a bug
report against it. Maybe it can be fixed.
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