On 2007-10-12 13:42:08 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Drat. In that case, could you just run: > > sudo -u man mandb --no-purge --quiet --create --debug 2>&1 | bzip2 -9c > > mandb.debug.bz2 > > ... and mail me the resulting file? With any luck that should be enough.
FYI, the problem still occurs with man-db 2.5.0-3, but there's now only one manconv: iconv_open: Invalid argument message. Here's an excerpt of this file: ult_src: File /usr/share/man/ja/man1/set-language-env.1.gz in mantree /usr/share/man/ja Starting pipeline: zcat < /usr/share/man/ja/man1/set-language-env.1.gz [input: {0, /usr/share/man/ja/man1/set-language-env.1.gz}, output: {-1, NULL}] Started "zcat < /usr/share/man/ja/man1/set-language-env.1.gz", pid 6137 Waiting for pipeline: zcat < /usr/share/man/ja/man1/set-language-env.1.gz [input: {0, /usr/share/man/ja/man1/set-language-env.1.gz}, output: {-1, NULL}] Active processes (1): "zcat < /usr/share/man/ja/man1/set-language-env.1.gz" (6137) -> -1 Active processes (1): "zcat < /usr/share/man/ja/man1/set-language-env.1.gz" (6137) -> 13 ++priv_drop_count = 1 ++priv_drop_count = 2 --priv_drop_count = 1 found lang dir element ja Starting pipeline: zcat < /usr/share/man/ja/man1/set-language-env.1.gz | /usr/lib/man-db/manconv -f UTF-8:EUC-JP -t UTF-8 [input: {0, /usr/share/man/ja/man1/set-language-env.1.gz}, output: {-1, NULL}] Started "zcat < /usr/share/man/ja/man1/set-language-env.1.gz", pid 6138 Started "/usr/lib/man-db/manconv", pid 6139 ++priv_drop_count = 2 manconv: iconv_open: Invalid argument --priv_drop_count = 1 Waiting for pipeline: zcat < /usr/share/man/ja/man1/set-language-env.1.gz | /usr/lib/man-db/manconv -f UTF-8:EUC-JP -t UTF-8 [input: {0, /usr/share/man/ja/man1/set-language-env.1.gz}, output: {-1, NULL}] Active processes (2): "zcat < /usr/share/man/ja/man1/set-language-env.1.gz" (6138) -> 0 "/usr/lib/man-db/manconv" (6139) -> 0 --priv_drop_count = 0 "(null)" -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)