on Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 07:13:22PM -0400, Eugene Tyurin (eugene_tyurin@yahoo.com) wrote:
>
> Ok, man-db is version 2.3.19-5
>
> mandb -d -c >>/tmp/mandb.log 2>>/tmp/mandb.log seems to get stuck
> at this point:
>
> free_hashtab: 2090 entries, 1302 (62%) unique
> done.
> catpath: /var/cache/man, manpath: /usr/share/man
> Testing for existence: /usr/share/man/man1/strace.1
> Testing for existence: /usr/share/man/man8/mandb.8
> create_db(/usr/local/man): /var/cache/man/oldlocal/3684
> Testing /usr/local/man for new files
> catpath: /var/cache/man/oldlocal, manpath: /usr/local/man
>
> strace cycles endlessly through these lines:
>
> open("/usr/X11R6/man/man3", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|0x18000) = 4
> fstat64(0x4, 0xbffff50c) = 0
> shmat(4, 0xbffff7b4, 0x2ptrace: umoven: Input/output error
> ) = ?
> ipc_subcall(0x4, 0x805e928, 0x1000, 0) = 4072
> ipc_subcall(0x4, 0x805e928, 0x1000, 0) = 4072
> ipc_subcall(0x4, 0x805e928, 0x1000, 0) = 4088
> ipc_subcall(0x4, 0x805e928, 0x1000, 0) = 4072
> ipc_subcall(0x4, 0x805e928, 0x1000, 0) = 4064
> ipc_subcall(0x4, 0x805e928, 0x1000, 0) = 4080
> ipc_subcall(0x4, 0x805e928, 0x1000, 0) = 4088
> ipc_subcall(0x4, 0x805e928, 0x1000, 0) = 4088
> ipc_subcall(0x4, 0x805e928, 0x1000, 0) = 4080
> ipc_subcall(0x4, 0x805e928, 0x1000, 0) = 4056
> ipc_subcall(0x4, 0x805e928, 0x1000, 0) = 3632
> ipc_subcall(0x4, 0x805e928, 0x1000, 0) = 0
> close(4)
>
> Sometimes, these lines appears:
>
> pread(3, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0008\0\0\0\"\0\0\0,\0\0\0004\0$\7\1\5\354"..., 4096, 229376) = 4096
>
> pread(3, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0&\0\0\0,\0\0\0;\0\0\0<\0\324\5\1\5\350"..., 4096, 155648) = 4096
>
> /usr/X11R6/man/man3 contains 989 manpages - no symlinks or anything funny.
Any funny-looking files in there -- particularly something with special
characters in it?
I had problems with slocate on a box a few months back, in which I was
referencing sources with apt-cdrom. One of my source files was
clobbering slocate such that my locate database wasn't being created
(major peeve). Had to delete the offending files.
My suggestion:
- rename /usr/X11R6/man/man3 to /usr/X11/man/man3-bak
- create a directory /usr/X11R6/man/man3
- create symlinks for half the files in man3-bak:
$ cd /usr/X11R6/man/man3
$ for file in $( ls ../man3-bak/* | head -495 );
do
ln -s "$file" "$( basename file )"
done
- re-run mandb. If you get the problem, remove half the files and
try again. If you don't get the problem, replace the 'head' above
with 'tail', and see if it appears.
- If you can't repeat the problem, then we've found something that
works.
...and tell us what you find out.
Cheers.
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