On Fri, 6 Dec 1996, Fabrizio Polacco wrote: > On debian-user-digest "Heiko R. Selber" wrote: > > Hello, > > > > when looking for manpages with apropos I always get an error message and > > the wildcard search fails for X related (and some other) man pages.
> > apropos: warning: can't read the fallback whatis text database. > > apropos: /usr/X11/man/whatis: No such file or directory > > > > How do I create the fallback whatis database? Do I need it? > > It should be created automatically. > Go superuser and try mandb -c I did it. It said: rudi:~# mandb -c Processing manual pages under /usr/man... mandb: warning: /usr/man/man8/in.smtpd.8: whatis parse for in.smtpd(8) failed mandb: warning: /usr/man/man8/mailq.8: whatis parse for mailq(8) failed mandb: warning: /usr/man/man8/sendmail.8: whatis parse for sendmail(8) failed mandb: warning: /usr/man/man8/runq.8: whatis parse for runq(8) failed mandb: warning: /usr/man/man8/rmail.8: whatis parse for rmail(8) failed mandb: warning: /usr/man/man8/rsmtp.8: whatis parse for rsmtp(8) failed mandb: warning: /usr/man/man8/install-fmt-base.8*: competing extensions mandb: warning: /usr/man/man1/uupath.1: whatis parse for uupath(1) failed mandb: warning: /usr/man/man1/dc.1: whatis parse for dc(1) failed mandb: warning: /usr/man/man1/color-ls.1: whatis parse for color-ls(1) failed mandb: warning: /usr/man/man1/libgpm.so.1: whatis parse for libgpm.so(1) failed mandb: warning: /usr/man/man3/man.tmp: ignoring bogus filename mandb: warning: /usr/man/man2/ioctl_list.2: whatis parse for ioctl_list(2) failed Checking for stray cats under /usr/man... Checking for stray cats under /var/catman... Processing manual pages under /usr/local/man... Checking for stray cats under /usr/local/man... Checking for stray cats under /var/catman/local... Processing manual pages under /usr/X11R6/man... Checking for stray cats under /usr/X11R6/man... Checking for stray cats under /var/catman/X11R6... 21 man subdirectories contained newer manual pages. 2911 manual pages and 0 stray cats were added. It sounds mostly optimistic but didn't seem to help: rudi:~# apropos man man (1) - an interface to the on-line reference manuals man (7) - macros to format man pages apropos: warning: can't read the fallback whatis text database. apropos: /usr/X11/man/whatis: No such file or directory I'm no wiser than before. What do the parse failed messages mean. > What version of apropos are you running? > Try apropos --version or dpkg -s man dpkg -s man: Package: man Status: install ok installed Priority: important Section: doc Maintainer: Alvar Bray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 2.3.10-11 ... Bye, Heiko ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Heiko Selber (Fritz-Haber-Institut Berlin) | Vs lbh pna ernq guvf | http://www.fhi-berlin.mpg.de/~selber | lbh unir jnfgrq lbhe gvzr. | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (un un un) | Phone:+49-30-8413-4574, Fax:+49-30-8413-4686 |____________________________| -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
