On Fri, 8 Aug 1997 05:50:27 +1000 (EST), you wrote: >> > I am running Debian 1.3.1, and recently trying to run man gives a >> > segmentation fault when run as a normal user (but not when run as root): >> > >> > % man man >> > Segmentation fault >> >> This happened to me too. I did not try any of the diagnostics you describe. >> I manually ftp'ed the man-db package and reinstalled it with dpkg -i. >> I dont know what caused the problem, but that fixed it. > >I had this problem, it occurred when I Ctl-C'd man while it was trying to >update it various caches and indicies. I then strace'd man (while I was >root), and noticed that after a certain cache file man failed. If you can >find out which file it is, delete it. Man has been working fine for me, >since then.
I had the same problem. It can be probably fixed easiest by running the script from cron-monthly (or was it cron-weekly) that cleans up and rebuilds the man database as root. If it is really caused by Ctrl-c, somebody should probably file a bug report against it. Maybe it can be fixed. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
