On 08/31/2012 11:02 PM, Colin Watson wrote:
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 05:23:25PM +0200, xiscu wrote:
On 08/31/2012 12:32 AM, Colin Watson wrote:
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 07:59:19PM +0200, xiscu wrote:
/usr/bin/mandb: can't search directory /usr/local/share/man: Permission denied
What does 'ls -ld /usr/local/share/man' say;
drwx--S--- 3 root staff 4096 Aug 25 12:41 /usr/local/share/man
and have you intentionally
changed the permissions of that directory?
Not intentionally
Then to be honest I think the correct solution to this bug is to make
that directory world-readable/executable. It doesn't seem to make sense
for /usr/local/share/man to be readable only by root. Perhaps it was
set that way by some deranged install script.
chmod 2755 /usr/local/share/man
Does that fix your problem? Depending on how far the insanity goes, you
may need to similarly chmod some subdirectories.
I've changed the permissions (also for the subdirectories) as
you proposed, then I've upgraded the packages with aptitude
and no complains where raised. E.g.:
[...]
Unpacking replacement initscripts ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up initscripts (2.88dsf-31) ...
[...]
As far as I can say it's gone. So I think that you can close the bug.
Nowadays I'll keep an eye on the messages, if that happens again
I can just send extra info to it (686026). Is it that Ok?
Thank you!
xiscu
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