On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 10:59:50AM -0800, Geoffrey L. Brimhall wrote: > 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: >
I don't know if this is related to a man problem I had or not. Trying to use man with any command caused a segmentation fault. I was told on this list to do `mandb --create'. This process generated many error messages, but man started working again. HTH, Gerald