"man" fails -- segmentation fault

[Jack Kern <jkern@klis.com>]

Yesterday "man" failed:  e.g.,
	
	$ man man
	Segmentation fault

 (I also noted a possibly unrelated increase of about 9megs on the
 partition, for which I could not account.  Today, the disk space
 is back -- presumably "cron.daily" took care of this.)

I decided to try "gdb" for the first time, so I did a "whatis gdb":

	$ whatis gdb
	Segmentation fault (core dumped)

I tried "gdb --core=./core":

	$ gdb --core=./core
	...
	GDB 4.16 (i586-debian-linux), Copyright 1996 Free Software Fou...
	Core was generated by `whatis mandb'.
	Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
	#0  0x4000f6f4 in ?? ()
	
Perhaps "gdb" could provide more information if I had any idea about how
to use it.  Of course "man gbd" is of no use  :)  ; "info gdb" was better
but I really did not understand it:

	$ gdb /usr/bin/man
	...
	(no debugging symbols found)...


So, how do I get my "man" back?  (Please, no jokes about Country and
Western song titles -- my wife has already covered that ground)?

I am using Debian GNU Linux 1.3:

	$ uname -a
	Linux ludd 2.0.30 #1 Mon Mar 9 00:41:12 AST 1998 i386 unknown

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  jkern@klis.com   Jack Kern   Yarmouth, Nova Scotia   Debian GNU/Linux i386


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