At some point, my apropos has gotten corrupted so that it never returns anything.
I've tried un-installing man-db, and re-installing it, but it apropos still does not work. Though I'm not sure if this has anything to do with it, when I issue 'catman' as super-user, I get the following error: catman: cannot read database /var/catman/index.bt: No such file or directory catman: unable to update /usr/man catman: cannot read database /var/catman/local/index.bt: No such file or directory catman: unable to update /usr/local/man catman: cannot read database /var/catman/X11R6/index.bt: No such file or directory catman: unable to update /usr/X11R6/man At one point I had suspected that maybe a slink upgrade which I did caused the corruption, so I have downgraded to installing the man-db that came with hamm.