Yesterday "man" failed: e.g.,
$ man man
Segmentation fault
(I also noted a possibly unrelated increase of about 9megs on the
partition, for which I could not account. Today, the disk space
is back -- presumably "cron.daily" took care of this.)
I decided to try "gdb" for the first time, so I did a "whatis gdb":
$ whatis gdb
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
I tried "gdb --core=./core":
$ gdb --core=./core
...
GDB 4.16 (i586-debian-linux), Copyright 1996 Free Software Fou...
Core was generated by `whatis mandb'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
#0 0x4000f6f4 in ?? ()
Perhaps "gdb" could provide more information if I had any idea about how
to use it. Of course "man gbd" is of no use :) ; "info gdb" was better
but I really did not understand it:
$ gdb /usr/bin/man
...
(no debugging symbols found)...
So, how do I get my "man" back? (Please, no jokes about Country and
Western song titles -- my wife has already covered that ground)?
I am using Debian GNU Linux 1.3:
$ uname -a
Linux ludd 2.0.30 #1 Mon Mar 9 00:41:12 AST 1998 i386 unknown
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