A 17:50 19/03/98 +0100, vous avez écrit :
>Hi everybody,
>
>I've just had some sort of crash two days ago, (in the messages file i got
>plenty of lines like these :
>
>Mar 16 17:20:34 xxx kernel: 08:01: rw=0, want=1094795586, limit=1020096
>Mar 16 17:20:39 xxx kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device )
>
>I don't know exactly what it was, i think it was a disk problem.
>When i rebooted, i had to use fsck and i think it fixed the problems.
>
>Now what i'd like to now is if the error message i get when i try to do an
>apropos <something> is the result of this mini-crash.
>
>The message is for example :
>
>[1root@iae log]# apropos time
>apropos: manpath is null
>
>When i use man i've got a brain new error too : it shows me the man but at
>the beginning i've got this
>
>[root@iae log]# man time
>Error executing formatting or display command.
>System command (cd /usr/man ; (echo ".ll 9.9i"; cat /usr/man/man2/time.2) |
>/usr/bin/gtbl | /usr/bin/groff -Tas
>cii -mandoc | /usr/bin/less -is) exited with status 127.
>
>TIME(2) Linux Programmer's Manual TIME(2)
>
>NAME
> time - get time in seconds
>
>SYNOPSIS
> #include <time.h>
>
> time_t time(time_t *t);
>
>DESCRIPTION
> time returns the time since 00:00:00 GMT, January 1, 1970,
> measured in seconds................
>.......... and so and so
>
>This second point is not very important as far as i've got the man but it's
>not normal.
>
>I'm not sure the problem started EXACTLY after the crash but maybe it's the
>case.
>
>Has anybody got an idea first concerning the exact reason of the crash,
>then why are apropos and man bugging.
>
I just answer my own mail to say today everything came back to normal.
It's certainly because of some cron.daily process that has been loaded but
i couldn't say exactly which one (anybody knows ?).
Just a little more question (i'm afraid of topic). I'm french and i can't
find the meaning of "Beowulf" is any dictionnary. What's this ?
Cheers
JY
LEBLIN Jean-Yves alias Grand Salut Legat Vogon Sthyr
IAE de Nantes sociétaire de Soulepave et Laplhage
tel: 02 40 14 12 04
(merci a D.Adams et J.Bonnefoy)
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