mandb --create hangs
Dear all,
Follwoing the recent discussion of problems with man, I decided to
try and fix it by doing mandb --create. So - I log in, su, and try and run
it -
root@pick:~# mandb --create
Processing manual pages under /usr/man...
mandb: warning: /usr/man/man8/mailq.8.gz: whatis parse for mailq(8) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/man/man8/sendmail.8.gz: whatis parse for sendmail(8)
failed
mandb: warning: /usr/man/man8/runq.8.gz: whatis parse for runq(8) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/man/man8/rmail.8.gz: whatis parse for rmail(8) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/man/man8/rsmtp.8.gz: whatis parse for rsmtp(8) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/man/man8/in.smtpd.8.gz: whatis parse for in.smtpd(8)
failed
mandb: can't open /usr/man/man1/gnuserv.1: No such file or directory
mandb: warning: /usr/man/man1/gnudoit.xemacs20.1.gz: bad symlink or ROFF
`.so' r
equest
mandb: warning: /usr/man/man1/uupath.1.gz: whatis parse for uupath(1)
failed
mandb: can't open /usr/man/man1/gnuserv.1: No such file or directory
mandb: warning: /usr/man/man1/gnuclient.1.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so'
request
mandb: can't open /usr/man/man1/gnuserv.1: No such file or directory
mandb: warning: /usr/man/man1/gnuclient.xemacs20.1.gz: bad symlink or ROFF
`.so'
request
mandb: can't open /usr/man/man1/gnuserv.1: No such file or directory
mandb: warning: /usr/man/man1/gnuattach.xemacs20.1.gz: bad symlink or ROFF
`.so'
request
mandb: can't open /usr/man/man1/gnuserv.1: No such file or directory
mandb: warning: /usr/man/man1/gnuattach.1.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so'
request
mandb: can't open /usr/man/man1/gnuserv.1: No such file or directory
mandb: warning: /usr/man/man1/gnudoit.1.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so'
request
mandb: warning: /usr/man/man1/pstogif.xemacs20.1.gz is a dangling symlink
mandb: can't open /usr/man/man1/pstogif.1: No such file or directory
mandb: warning: /usr/man/man1/pstogif.1.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so'
request
mandb: warning: /usr/man/man1/analog.1.gz: whatis parse for analog(1)
failed
It then just sits there (and indeed the process seems no longer to be
running):
9:23am up 65 days, 12:38, 2 users, load average: 0.11, 0.39, 0.73
52 processes: 50 sleeping, 1 running, 1 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 4.0% user, 4.9% system, 0.0% nice, 91.2% idle
Mem: 14144K av, 13240K used, 904K free, 22732K shrd, 1944K buff
Swap: 66524K av, 1984K used, 64540K free 4196K cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
29087 mcv21 15 0 776 776 576 R 0 8.5 5.4 1:05 top
28580 root 1 0 660 660 500 S 0 0.3 4.6 0:06
in.telnetd
1 root 0 0 116 64 40 S 0 0.0 0.4 0:20 init
The running process being stop, and the zombie being a runq (zombie) which
I probably should get round to killing.
Should I kill the process, and try again, or what?
Thanks,
Matthew
--
Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo
Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society
Selwyn College Computer Support
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/
http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/
http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
Reply to: