Re: man: Segmentation fault
On Sat, Aug 22, 1998 at 10:37:29AM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: Could be as simple as a corrupt database. try `mandb --create` Wooow ! Tried it. Did get use of man back (Thanks !), but got many warnings (see below). And anyway, what would cause an otherwise sweet and innocent DB to become corrupt in the first place ? Are there some underlying problems that I should be worried about ? Thanks, Gerald mandb: warning: /usr/man/man8/in.smtpd.8: whatis parse for in.smtpd(8) failed whatis parse for mailq(8) failed whatis parse for sendmail(8) failed whatis parse for runq(8) failed whatis parse for rmail(8) failed whatis parse for rsmtp(8) failed whatis parse for qcrack(1) failed whatis parse for endian(1) failed whatis parse for qext(1) failed whatis parse for qinit(1) failed whatis parse for uupath(1) failed whatis parse for ps2frag(1) failed mandb: warning: /usr/man/man3/man.tmp: ignoring bogus filename ignoring bogus filename whatis parse for paperdone(3paper) failed whatis parse for paperfirst(3paper) failed whatis parse for paperwithsize(3paper) failed whatis parse for paperlast(3paper) failed whatis parse for defaultpapername(3paper) failed whatis parse for papernext(3paper) failed whatis parse for paperprev(3paper) failed whatis parse for systempapersizefile(3paper)failed whatis parse for ioctl_list(2) failed /usr/man/man7/undocumented.7*: competing extensions whatis parse for groff_mmse(7) 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... 27 man subdirectories contained newer manual pages. 1880 manual pages and 0 stray cats were added. # mandb: warning: /usr/man/man
Re: man: Segmentation fault
On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, G. Crimp wrote: On Sat, Aug 22, 1998 at 10:37:29AM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: Could be as simple as a corrupt database. try `mandb --create` Wooow ! Tried it. Did get use of man back (Thanks !), but got many warnings (see below). And anyway, what would cause an otherwise sweet and innocent DB to become corrupt in the first place ? Are there some underlying problems that I should be worried about ? [snip] Sorry, cant help with the warnings.. anyone? I get them too. Why it was corrupt? I cant remember the reason I was given once.. but I know that it happens. `mandb --create` usually fixes any man problems I have.. I accept no responsibility And as for the underlying problems? I would say it's just a simple dregs situation. Some packages may have left some symlinks after removal for some unbeknown reason.. I dont know, thats just a guess :) /I accept no responsibility Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with pgpkey as subject. - Jump through hoops? I don't think so. Crawl through Windows? *HELL NO*!! - Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out!
man: Segmentation fault
Hi, I can't use 'man' anymore. It doesn't dump core, but I do get a Segmentation fault in X as on the console, when I am root as when I am joeuser. I can't recall having made any changes to the system except to have used dselect to install the dxpc package. Oh yeah, and a while ago I set up a small script to set up a ppp connection with another pc through the serial ports using a null-modem cable. It isn't impossible that I have made another change, but it will be minor like having added or removed some package with dselect. With only Segmentation fault as a message, I don't have the slightest little crumb of a notion what to look at. Can anyone guide me through some detective work ? Thanks, Gerald
Re: man: Segmentation fault
Could be as simple as a corrupt database. try `mandb --create` On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, G. Crimp wrote: Hi, I can't use 'man' anymore. It doesn't dump core, but I do get a Segmentation fault in X as on the console, when I am root as when I am joeuser. I can't recall having made any changes to the system except to have used dselect to install the dxpc package. Oh yeah, and a while ago I set up a small script to set up a ppp connection with another pc through the serial ports using a null-modem cable. It isn't impossible that I have made another change, but it will be minor like having added or removed some package with dselect. With only Segmentation fault as a message, I don't have the slightest little crumb of a notion what to look at. Can anyone guide me through some detective work ? Thanks, Gerald -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with pgpkey as subject. - Velcro, super glue, duct tape, post-its, and Linux. - Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out!
Re: man: Segmentation fault y otros
On Mon, May 18, 1998 at 10:15:57AM -, Arocha Hernández, Luis wrote: En el arranque del PC, en el primer login que pide. Ah, te habia entendido otra cosa... el problema es que por algun motivo no fue actualizado el /etc/inittab. Debe verse mas o menos asi: id:2:initdefault: si::sysinit:/etc/init.d/rcS ~~:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin l0:0:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 0 l1:1:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 1 l2:2:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 2 l3:3:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 3 l4:4:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 4 l5:5:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 5 l6:6:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 6 z6:6:respawn:/sbin/sulogin 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1 2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2 3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty3 4:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty4 5:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty5 6:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6 le quite algunas cosas, pues creo que son las lineas que comienzan con un numero las que no tienes/tienes diferente. Marcelo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
man: Segmentation fault
El problema se ha corregido con mandb -c. Gracias. Luís Arocha. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
man: Segmentation fault y otros
¿A alguien se le ocurre porque me puede salir el mensaje 'Segmentation fault' cuando ejecuto el comando man? Cuando ejecuto man --help me da la ayuda sin ningún problema, pero cuando ejecuto man ls me 'escupe' este error y se termina. Cuando hago login root me entra sin pedirme la password del root, en cambio cuando hago su root me la pide correctamente. ¿Alguna sugerencia? He instalado mi debian a partir del CD del número 1 de Linux Actual, en el cual había unos diskettes de instalación específicos para Toshiba TECRA, que han corregido ciertos problemillas que se presentaban en mi Toshiba Satellite. ¿Como puedo averiguar que tenían de especial sobre los diskettes habituales para poder recompilar el kernel en consecuencia, con todas las opciones habituales? Saludos. Luís Arocha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: man: Segmentation fault
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 15 May 1998, Arocha Hernández, Luis wrote: ¿A alguien se le ocurre porque me puede salir el mensaje 'Segmentation fault' cuando ejecuto el comando man? Porque los índices están corruptos. Cuando ejecuto man --help me da la ayuda sin ningún problema, pero cuando ejecuto man ls me 'escupe' este error y se termina. Prueba mandb -c como root para recrear los índices. Este es un error que costó mucho encontrar (el motivo por el que los índices se estropeaban con tanta facilidad). Afortunadamente, en Debian 2.0 este problema habrá desaparecido. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBNVwzRCqK7IlOjMLFAQFx5wP/SdPRn4799fbWuUgWL1eeG+Ydip0yWKOO b0am0fXfLFIneCfz/+LQ9n9QTU/eIaeB4Ht3hpPSvF0GF3qgBc4FJQQQo8IIO07M lG3OiKCnWdj/pf3lP+58GlbwwcKkxyQEMEf/oYqo+6mMChNCc4I5MzhlnGD+bwuL 6BTqAUpYwQ8= =FeTF -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: man segmentation fault
bash-2.00$ man I_have_no_entry_for_that No manual entry for I_have_no_entry_for_that I can't understand the behaviour you are observing. From time to time there is some discussion here about man seg fault. I think someone said it could be avoided by issuing man-db -c. Ulrich Jans posted a message about man segmentation fault. Since I first installed debian (1.31) I have always get a segmentation fault error any time I attempt to use man for anything that's not in the man page. There doesn't seem to be any problem (It's just man's cute way of saying 'I have no entry for that') or is that an indication that something is seriously wrong? -Chip -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: man segmentation fault
Bujtar Janos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Today my debian hamm started to fail when i want to see a man page Every time i want to see man pages (any!!!) the result is core dumped. Stracing the man the last message is Updating index cache for path.. Any ideas? Well, I don't have the hamm installed yet, but on my bo I onec got the same error. It was resolved by removing /var/catman/index.bt. (We suspect index corruption, man tried to allocate more than half a gig of RAM in the process without checking for the result...) regards, Ulli -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: man segmentation fault
Bujtar Janos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello ! Today my debian hamm started to fail when i want to see a man page Every time i want to see man pages (any!!!) the result is core dumped. Stracing the man the last message is Updating index cache for path.. Any ideas? As root, run 'mandb -c' - man occasionally gets its index file corrupted. This fixes it. Has anyone put this question in the FAQ-O-Matic yet? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: man segmentation fault
Ulrich Jans posted a message about man segmentation fault. Since I first installed debian (1.31) I have always get a segmentation fault error any time I attempt to use man for anything that's not in the man page. There doesn't seem to be any problem (It's just man's cute way of saying 'I have no entry for that') or is that an indication that something is seriously wrong? -Chip -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: man segmentation fault
Bujtar Janos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello ! Today my debian hamm started to fail when i want to see a man page Every time i want to see man pages (any!!!) the result is core dumped. Stracing the man the last message is Updating index cache for path.. That happened to me once my index files were corrupted. IIRC, I removed the index.bt files in /var/catman, /var/catman/X11R6 and /var/catman/local (I use the mandb package) and started the /etc/cron.weekly/mandb script. Torsten -- I haven't lost my mind -- it's backed up on tape somewhere. Fortune Cookie PGP Public key available -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: man segmentation fault
On Wed, Mar 18, 1998 at 01:43:53PM +0100, Bujtar Janos wrote: Today my debian hamm started to fail when i want to see a man page Every time i want to see man pages (any!!!) the result is core dumped. Stracing the man the last message is Updating index cache for path.. I had the same problem, when I put symlink in my MANPATH. I removed symlink from MANPATH and problem disappered. WBW, Alexey. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
man segmentation fault
Hello ! Today my debian hamm started to fail when i want to see a man page Every time i want to see man pages (any!!!) the result is core dumped. Stracing the man the last message is Updating index cache for path.. Any ideas? thnx james -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: man segmentation fault
janos == Bujtar Janos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: janos Every time i want to see man pages (any!!!) the result is janos core dumped. you can try to re-create manpage index cache via: $ man 8 mandb $ mandb -c cheers -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: man segmentation fault
On Mon, Feb 02, 1998 at 12:15:02AM +0100, Jens Ritter wrote: Gerald Wann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello - I am getting a segmentation fault whe i invoke man from the command line. What are the possible causes of this error, please? This one reached the Faq-O-Matic. I said there: man or in this special case the binary from the package man-db uses a database (you guessed it already, no?), which sometimes can get corrupted. This database is updated once a week by /etc/cron.weekly/man-db. You can rebuild the database at any time by running man-db or mandb as root. If the segmentation faults do not vanish, keep looking. This corruption is due to failed search in the man database by the info program, don't know if because of a bug in bash or in info itself. The man-db version in experimental, compiled for bo, takes care of this. It is not in bo-unstable because it needs an updated less or more package, or a PAGER var env set. fabrizio -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] | Líder Minimo del Pluto- Debian Developer Happy Debian User | 6F7267F5 fingerprint 57 16 C4 ED C9 86 40 7B 1A 69 A1 66 EC FB D2 5E more than 34 months are needed to get rid of the millennium. [me] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: man segmentation fault
Gerald Wann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello - I am getting a segmentation fault whe i invoke man from the command line. What are the possible causes of this error, please? Thanks Jerry http://www.debian.org/cgi-bin/fom?file=58showEditCmds=1 This one reached the Faq-O-Matic. I said there: man or in this special case the binary from the package man-db uses a database (you guessed it already, no?), which sometimes can get corrupted. This database is updated once a week by /etc/cron.weekly/man-db. You can rebuild the database at any time by running man-db or mandb as root. If the segmentation faults do not vanish, keep looking. I you have suggestions/corrections about the Problems/stable section of the FOM please feel free to email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheers, Jens --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for pgp-key (during normal european business time hours) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: man segmentation fault
Gerald Wann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello - I am getting a segmentation fault whe i invoke man from the command line. What are the possible causes of this error, please? See if running the command 'mandb -c' while root fixes this problem. If it does, the problem is that the man index database got corrupted. This happens from time to time. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
man segmentation fault
Hello - I am getting a segmentation fault whe i invoke man from the command line. What are the possible causes of this error, please? Thanks Jerry -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: man segmentation fault
On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Gerald Wann wrote: I am getting a segmentation fault whe i invoke man from the command line. What are the possible causes of this error, please? which debian release are you using? Stable, unstable, 1.2 ..? Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ | |PGP Public Key: http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/index.html#pgpkey| -- | So don't beg, and don't plead. | | You can't have the heart you make bleed. | |-- The Beautiful South, Love is... | -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
