Re: cron.daily/man-db problems

[David Baron <d_baron@012.net.il>]

On Tuesday 16 May 2006 11:48, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 10:22:39 +0300, David Baron wrote:
> > Get a whole series of messages like:
> > mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/xtrapinfo.1x.gz: bad symlink or ROFF
> > `.so' request
> > mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man1x/xtrap.1x: No such file or
> > directory
> >
> > I tried recreating the db, still happens.
> >
> > How to fix?
>
> The problem is that a number of manpages still contain symlinks which
> assume the old(er) directory structure. You would have to change them
> yourself, for example /usr/share/man/man1/xtrapinfo.1x.gz is only one
> line:
>
> .so man1x/xtrap.1x
>
> This line should be:
>
> .so man1/xtrap.1x
>
> You can also just wait; the bug is known and it will probably be fixed
> soon. (I can't seem to connect to bugs.debian.org right now, therefore I
> cannot provide a link. "xbase-clients" should be the relevant package.)

So ... how about ln -s man1 man1x
in the /usr/share/man directory.??
Looking for a man3x as well :-)