Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > False conclusion #1: now, it seems to crash regardless of if mandb is > running or not. ARGGHH!! However, I have left in that in the message, > in case it gives anybody else some ideas.
I seem to remember once upon a time that man would crash and burn if one somehow had a corrupt index.bt file. Could it be that a partially completed install produces such a corrupt file (i.e. could it be that whatever mandb does in the background is rebuilding this, and being only half-way done means the resulting file seems corrupt), and that an existing but corrupt index file causes havoc? I would suggest backing up all your index.bt files, rm'ing them and then attempt installing again (this should be doable with tar czf index.bt.tar.gz `find /var/cache/man -name index.bt` rm `find /var/cache/man -name index.bt` ) If you discover that you can make the install succeed when you have rm'ed your index.bt files, and yet fail again when you restore them...
