Re: man segmentation fault

To: Gerald Wann <photonuv@kudos.net>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: man segmentation fault
From: dtm12@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Daniel Martin at cush)
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 20:23:55 -0500
Message-id: <[🔎] 87g1m5o2qc.fsf@cush>
In-reply-to: Gerald Wann's message of "Thu, 29 Jan 1998 17:55:13 -0500"
References: <[🔎] 3.0.5.32.19980129175513.0079b410@mail.kudos.net>

Gerald Wann <photonuv@kudos.net> writes:

> Hello -
> 
> I am getting a segmentation fault whe i invoke man from the
> command line. What are the possible causes of this error, please?

See if running the command 'mandb -c' while root fixes this problem.
If it does, the problem is that the man index database got corrupted.
This happens from time to time.

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