[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Since last evening I have been getting segmention faults in man and > in apropos. Can anyone explain to me what that means and how I fix > it? Do I have to reinstall?
No need to reinstall. One of your database files (indeb.bt on each subdir in /var/catman) went corrupted (you can see the timestamp different from the others: find /var/catman -name index.bt -ls ). The right fix is to run as root: mandb -c /usr/man if the index corrupted was /var/catman/index.bt, or mandb -c /usr/X11R6/man if the corrupted was in /var/catman/X11R6, To be sure you can run simply mandb -c to build _all_ the databases. (On my system 486/120 it takes 15-20 minutes). Scott Ellis wrote: > > find /var/catman -type f -name index.bt | xargs rm -f > Although this apparently stops the segfault, it is the _wrong_ suggestion: the user was executing apropos, and removing the database makes apropos tell "nothing appropriate" for every request. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Before the errors started I had been fiddling around trying to figure > out how to send a fax from debian. Did you insatalled new packages for that (and therefor new manpages)? I am having big troubles trying to figure out _how_ actually this corruprtion appens (although I have some theories), and any information on strange things appened before the segfault (maybe involving package installation or removal, or man interuption) may help. > All of the actions described were proformed > while logged in as root. I don't know if my prior actions have any > relation to the errors, but have included them just in case. No, in this case I don't think that they were involved. Thanks, fabrizio -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Pluto Leader - Debian Developer & Happy Debian 1.3.1 User - vi-holic | 6F7267F5 fingerprint 57 16 C4 ED C9 86 40 7B 1A 69 A1 66 EC FB D2 5E -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
