On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Daniel Troeder wrote: > This is probably caused by /etc/cron.daily/makewhatis trying to > decrompress man-pages to scan them for its database. > * Do these files really exist? > * Have you tried to decompress them to stdout manually (# bzcat <file>)? > * Are they really bzip2-files? (Check with # file <file>) > * Ist your disk full? > Try reproducing the error by running > # makewhatis -w -v &> makewhatis.log > as root and check the logfile.
Here's an example email I got today: > bzcat: I/O or other error, bailing out. Possible reason follows. > bzcat: Broken pipe > Input file = /usr/share/man/man8/./hdparm.8.bz2, output file = (stdout) OK, so let's check that file: # ls -al /usr/share/man/man8/./hdparm.8.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8569 Jul 24 10:15 /usr/share/man/man8/./hdparm.8.bz2 Looks OK. I ran bunzip -c on the file and it displayed without any errors. I also ran makewhatis manually and I got no errors at all. One thing I have noticed is that I get these after an update (there was a recent update to hdparm). -- A -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
