Re: man

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> wrote:
>On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 02:19:12PM +0000, Nic Ferrier wrote:
>> I've just installed debian (potato) on an IMac (which went rather well
>> all things considered). 
>> 
>> I've upgraded the kernel to 2.4.2-pre4 (a PPC kernel release) and
>> everything seemed to be going well.
>> 
>> However, I've just noticed that man doesn't find the man pages.
>
>someone mentioned this the other day on -powerpc, they were able to
>solve it by running mandb --create.

(Or at least partially solve it, looking at the archives?)

>it would seem to be a bug, but i have not looked into it.  perhaps it
>only occurs on powerpc, as i think if it were on x86 too we would be
>seeing 50 posts a day about it here ;-)

Hmm. I've been working on man-db for unstable, so I'd be interested to
track this down.

Nic, could you send me the output of 'strace man ls', run as root? (Bits
of man are setuid, so it's awkward to strace it as an unprivileged
user.)

Also, is this the security update (2.3.16-1.1)? That had build problems
on alpha; it doesn't sound like quite the same symptoms, but it's
possible.

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]