Re: apropos in man corrupted ! - howto fix ?
On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 10:59:50AM -0800, Geoffrey L. Brimhall wrote:
> At some point, my apropos has gotten corrupted so that it never returns
> anything.
>
> I've tried un-installing man-db, and re-installing it, but it apropos still
> does not work.
>
> Though I'm not sure if this has anything to do with it, when I issue 'catman' as
> super-user, I get the following error:
>
I don't know if this is related to a man problem I had or not.
Trying to use man with any command caused a segmentation fault. I was told
on this list to do `mandb --create'. This process generated many error
messages, but man started working again.
HTH,
Gerald
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