Dale Scheetz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : On Sat, 24 Aug 1996, Hamish Moffatt wrote: : : > : > When I try to view a manual page that's located in /usr/local/man, : > man says it's updating a local index, then gives a segmentation fault. : > Any ideas on how to fix this? : > : Need more information to be of any help. : What version of man are you using? What shell and it's version? : Such problems in the past have been caused by a corupted index file. Try: : mandb /usr/local/man and see if that helps. waterf:/usr/local# mandb /usr/local/man Processing manual pages under /usr/local/man... Checking for stray cats under /usr/local/man... Checking for stray cats under /var/catman/local... 0 man subdirectories contained newer manual pages. 0 manual pages and 0 stray cats were added. waterf:/usr/local# man -kr xx Segmentation fault (core dumped) waterf:/usr/local# dpkg -s man Package: man Status: install ok installed Priority: important Section: doc Maintainer: Alvar Bray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 2.3.10-11 Depends: groff, libc5, libgdbm1 Description: Display the on-line manual. This packages provides the man command, this utility is the primary way of examining the on-line help files (manual pages). Other utilities provided include the whatis and apropos commands for searching the manual page database; the manpath utility for determining the manual page search path and the maintenance utilities mandb, catman and zsoelim. This packages uses the groff suit of programs to format and display the manual pages.
waterf:/usr/local# Hope that is enough....
