On Sat, 24 Aug 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
dwarf>I've got the same version. I get:
dwarf>
dwarf>$ man -kr xx
dwarf>xxgdb (1x) - X window system interface to the gdb debugger.
dwarf>
dwarf>However, most of my man pages are in /usr/man not /usr/local/man. Try
dwarf>running mandb on /usr/man and see if that helps.
dwarf>You might also try checking the MD5SUM on the package file you installed
dwarf>from. If it does not check out, then you got a corrupt package file. Try
dwarf>getting a new copy and re-install, if this is the case.
dwarf>Just an asside...is your shell bash?
Yes.
Here is the output from what you suggested:
mandb: warning: /usr/man/man1/dpkg-source.1 is a dangling symlink
mandb: can't open /usr/man/man1/dpkg-parsechangelog.1: No such file or
directory
mandb: warning: /usr/man/man1/dpkg-parsechangelog.1: bad symlink or ROFF
`.so' request
mandb: warning: /usr/man/man1/dpkg-source.1 is a dangling symlink
mandb: can't open /usr/man/man1/dpkg-genchanges.1: No such file or
directory
mandb: warning: /usr/man/man1/dpkg-genchanges.1: bad symlink or ROFF `.so'
request
mandb: warning: /usr/man/man1/dpkg-source.1 is a dangling symlink
mandb: can't open /usr/man/man1/dpkg-buildpackage.1: No such file or
directory
mandb: warning: /usr/man/man1/dpkg-buildpackage.1: bad symlink or ROFF
`.so' request
mandb: warning: /usr/man/man1/dpkg-source.1 is a dangling symlink
mandb: can't open /usr/man/man1/dpkg-distaddfile.1: No such file or
directory
mandb: warning: /usr/man/man1/dpkg-distaddfile.1: bad symlink or ROFF
`.so' request
Checking for stray cats under /usr/man...
Checking for stray cats under /var/catman...
3 man subdirectories contained newer manual pages.
80 manual pages and 0 stray cats were added.
waterf:/home/clameter# man -kr xx
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
waterf:/home/clameter#
Seems that the man package cannot cope with some screwups of the dpkg
updates.
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