Re: Error al instalar man-db en jessie (quizás problema de ext4???)

2014-12-13 Thread Camaleón
El Fri, 12 Dec 2014 20:56:00 +0100, José Miguel (sio2) escribió: El Fri, 12 de Dec de 2014, a las 06:05:35PM +, Camaleón dijo: No es una estupidez siempre y cuando lo hagas como prueba para comprobar si el raid 1 funciona como debe o no. Lo que ya no me parece tan normal es que lo

Error al instalar man-db en jessie (quizás problema de ext4???)

2014-12-12 Thread sio2
montado el sistema raíz en modo sólo lectura. Mirando cuál era el culpable he visto el error se produce al instalar man-db, incluso aunque decida actualizar sólo man-db: #v+ # aptitude install man-db [...] (Leyendo la base de datos ... 32148 ficheros o directorios instalados actualmente

Re: Error al instalar man-db en jessie (quizás problema de ext4???)

2014-12-12 Thread Camaleón
produce al instalar man-db, incluso aunque decida actualizar sólo man-db: (...) Y luego se siguen escupiendo muchos errores producidos porque el sistema raíz se ha puesto en sólo lectura. He intentado unas cuantas veces la operación a partir de la jessie sin actualizar y siempre ocurre lo mismo

Re: Error al instalar man-db en jessie (quizás problema de ext4???)

2014-12-12 Thread sio2
El Fri, 12 de Dec de 2014, a las 05:19:40PM +, Camaleón dijo: Yo interpreto lo siguiente: se te ha caído el raid 1 (por el motivo que sea, primer problema a analizar, es decir, comprobar si realmente el raid está caído o se debe a su estado forzado a un sólo disco ¿?) Hay una

Re: Error al instalar man-db en jessie (quizás problema de ext4???)

2014-12-12 Thread Camaleón
El Fri, 12 Dec 2014 18:47:25 +0100, José Miguel (sio2) escribió: El Fri, 12 de Dec de 2014, a las 05:19:40PM +, Camaleón dijo: Yo interpreto lo siguiente: se te ha caído el raid 1 (por el motivo que sea, primer problema a analizar, es decir, comprobar si realmente el raid está caído o

Re: Error al instalar man-db en jessie (quizás problema de ext4???)

2014-12-12 Thread sio2
El Fri, 12 de Dec de 2014, a las 06:05:35PM +, Camaleón dijo: No es una estupidez siempre y cuando lo hagas como prueba para comprobar si el raid 1 funciona como debe o no. Lo que ya no me parece tan normal es que lo tengas de manera constante roto (con un sólo disco), ya que de esa

Re: Le paquet Git installé me crée des erreurs via man-db.

2009-01-26 Thread Kevin Hinault
Le 24 janvier 2009 02:40, Thomas Preud'homme thomas.preudho...@celest.fr a écrit : Alors moi je suis pas contrariant et je vérifie ce qu'on me dit : # file /usr/share/man/man1/git.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/git.1.gz: broken symbolic link to `/etc/alternatives/git.1.gz' Il est possible

Re: Le paquet Git installé me crée des erreurs via man-db.

2009-01-23 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
de man-db qui détecte une erreur : /etc/cron.daily/man-db: mandb: attention: /usr/share/man/man1/git.1.gz est un lien symbolique flottant Alors moi je suis pas contrariant et je vérifie ce qu'on me dit : # file /usr/share/man/man1/git.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/git.1.gz: broken symbolic link

Le paquet Git installé me crée des erreurs via man -db.

2009-01-21 Thread Kevin Hinault
Bonjour, Je viens avec un sujet qui me gène depuis quelques temps sur ma Debian Etch : j'ai installé il y a quelques mois le paquet git via apt-get et depuis à chaque nouveau paquet que j'installes, j'ai le lendemain un mail de man-db qui détecte une erreur : /etc/cron.daily/man-db: mandb

Re: /etc/cron.daily/man-db: /var/cache/man: Permission denied

2007-03-03 Thread Micha
I think it's a problem with the way exim is configured. Exim is mailing the report locally. So that's why we couldn't find anything about cron-daily, man-db, or file permissions ! I can see the same error on two freshly installed Debian unstable boxes, with completely different archs

Re: /etc/cron.daily/man-db: /var/cache/man: Permission denied

2006-08-18 Thread Micha
| Thanks for your suggestion, i'll report if it worked. No, sorry, even with /var mounted 'suid' i got still the same error mail... /etc/cron.daily/man-db: find: /var/cache/man: Permission denied -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

/etc/cron.daily/man-db: /var/cache/man: Permission denied

2006-08-17 Thread Micha
(Please first cc to me, if i got a reply i will switch to reading the archive) Hello, This is Debian Sid, and since a few months i got this error message (sent via local mail): /etc/cron.daily/man-db: find: /var/cache/man: Permission denied and i just can't come up with any explanation

Re: /etc/cron.daily/man-db: /var/cache/man: Permission denied

2006-08-17 Thread David E. Fox
On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 03:16:08 +0200 Micha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /etc/cron.daily/man-db: find: /var/cache/man: Permission denied Cron likely runs with no (or low level) permissions. /var is mounted as: /dev/hda10 on /var type ext2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,errors=remount-ro) Hmm. nosuid

Re: /etc/cron.daily/man-db: /var/cache/man: Permission denied

2006-08-17 Thread Micha
that 'owner' implies nosuid. | First, try mounting /var without the nosuid part. (How do i trigger a normal cron man-db run ?) ... I'll see tomorrow. | The way this ought to work (and I thought it did) was for example, | a hypothetical user looks at a frequently used man page I seem to remember

cron.daily/man-db problems

2006-05-16 Thread David Baron
Get a whole series of messages like: mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/xtrapinfo.1x.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man1x/xtrap.1x: No such file or directory I tried recreating the db, still happens. How to fix? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: cron.daily/man-db problems

2006-05-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 10:22:39 +0300, David Baron wrote: Get a whole series of messages like: mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/xtrapinfo.1x.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man1x/xtrap.1x: No such file or directory I tried recreating the db,

Re: cron.daily/man-db problems

2006-05-16 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 16 May 2006 11:48, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 10:22:39 +0300, David Baron wrote: Get a whole series of messages like: mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/xtrapinfo.1x.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man1x/xtrap.1x: No

Re: cron.daily/man-db problems

2006-05-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 12:00:15 +0300, David Baron wrote: On Tuesday 16 May 2006 11:48, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 10:22:39 +0300, David Baron wrote: Get a whole series of messages like: mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/xtrapinfo.1x.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so'

man-db confused by X man page relocation

2006-04-18 Thread Edward C. Jones
I use a PC with a AMD Athlon64 3500+ chip and up-to-date Debian unstable i386 port. Each day I get an email from cron that says: /etc/cron.daily/man-db: mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man1x/xtrap.1x: No such file or directory mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/xtrapinfo.1x.gz: bad symlink

Re: man-db confused by X man page relocation

2006-04-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
Edward C. Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use a PC with a AMD Athlon64 3500+ chip and up-to-date Debian unstable i386 port. Each day I get an email from cron that says: /etc/cron.daily/man-db: mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man1x/xtrap.1x: No such file or directory mandb: warning

Re: Man-DB is crazy

2005-09-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Kevin B. McCarty wrote: Please CC replies to me as I'm not subscribed. Once a day I get the following email message from the man-db cron job: /etc/cron.daily/man-db: mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz is a dangling symlink This in spite of all the evidence

Re: Man-DB is crazy

2005-09-23 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Bob Proulx wrote: Kevin B. McCarty wrote: Once a day I get the following email message from the man-db cron job: /etc/cron.daily/man-db: mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz is a dangling symlink It would be a lot easier to use the -L option and do it in one command

Re: Man-DB is crazy

2005-09-14 Thread David E. Fox
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 09:44:15 -0400 Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, Once a day I get the following email message from the man-db cron job: /etc/cron.daily/man-db: mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz is a dangling symlink This in spite

Re: Man-DB is crazy

2005-09-14 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
David E. Fox wrote: On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 09:44:15 -0400 Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: benjo[1]:~% ls -l /usr/share/man/man1/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 42 2005-09-09 10:05 /usr/share/man/man1/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz - /etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz

Man-DB is crazy

2005-09-13 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi list, Once a day I get the following email message from the man-db cron job: /etc/cron.daily/man-db: mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz is a dangling symlink This in spite of all the evidence: benjo[1]:~% ls -l /usr/share/man/man1/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz

dangling symlink in man-db

2003-09-05 Thread tallison
How do I clean this up? /etc/cron.daily/man-db: mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/Judy.3x.bz2 is a dangling symlink mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/judy.3x.bz2 is a dangling symlink mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/Judy1.3x.bz2 is a dangling symlink mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3

Re: dangling symlink in man-db

2003-09-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 11:31:10AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I clean this up? /etc/cron.daily/man-db: mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/Judy.3x.bz2 is a dangling symlink mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/judy.3x.bz2 is a dangling symlink mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3

Re: after upgrade man-db seg faults

2003-08-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 03:03:30PM -0400, John covici wrote: Well, tell me the steps -- it will be easier that way and I'll get the source and rebuild. As root: # apt-get install build-essential debhelper flex gettext groff libdb3-dev As an ordinary user: $ apt-get source man-db $ cd

Re: after upgrade man-db seg faults

2003-08-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 09:00:11AM -0400, John Covici wrote: Hi. After upgrading to 2.4.1-12 of man-db it seg faults in the cron.daily script at the start-stop-daemon line. 2.4.1-12, really? I know that there was a problem with the woody backport but was not aware of anything in unstable. Do

Re: after upgrade man-db seg faults

2003-08-14 Thread John covici
:11AM -0400, John Covici wrote: Hi. After upgrading to 2.4.1-12 of man-db it seg faults in the cron.daily script at the start-stop-daemon line. 2.4.1-12, really? I know that there was a problem with the woody backport but was not aware of anything in unstable. Do you know how

after upgrade man-db seg faults

2003-08-10 Thread John Covici
Hi. After upgrading to 2.4.1-12 of man-db it seg faults in the cron.daily script at the start-stop-daemon line. I am using kernel 2.4.21 vanilla if it makes any difference. Thanks. -- John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: man-db

2003-01-16 Thread Raymond Gree
Frédéric Bothamy wrote: * Jeremie Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-01-15 09:18] : On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 08:21:33AM +0100, Raymond Gree wrote: voila depuis quelques jour mon PC WOODY fonctionne 24/24 j'obtiens depuis le message: /etc/cron.daily/man-db: start-stop-daemon: user `man

man-db

2003-01-15 Thread Raymond Gree
Bonjour a tous, voila depuis quelques jour mon PC WOODY fonctionne 24/24 j'obtiens depuis le message: /etc/cron.daily/man-db: start-stop-daemon: user `man' not found run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/man-db exited with return code 2 je pense que c'est une operation periodique mais je n'arrive

Re: man-db

2003-01-15 Thread Jeremie Koenig
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 08:21:33AM +0100, Raymond Gree wrote: voila depuis quelques jour mon PC WOODY fonctionne 24/24 j'obtiens depuis le message: /etc/cron.daily/man-db: start-stop-daemon: user `man' not found run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/man-db exited with return code 2 je pense que

Re: man-db

2003-01-15 Thread Frédéric Bothamy
* Jeremie Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-01-15 09:18] : On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 08:21:33AM +0100, Raymond Gree wrote: voila depuis quelques jour mon PC WOODY fonctionne 24/24 j'obtiens depuis le message: /etc/cron.daily/man-db: start-stop-daemon: user `man' not found run-parts

man-db install error

2002-02-10 Thread D E Radel
Hi everyone. Error installing man-db. Can anyone please tell me how to fix this problem: Fetched 334kB in 1m6s (4997B/s) Selecting previously deselected package man-db. (Reading database ... 33532 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking man-db (from .../man

Re: man-db install error

2002-02-10 Thread Günter Knab
Satz- und Datentechnik Günter Knab B|ro f|r Systemanalyse und angewandte Mathematik Geiselhofer Strasse 5 92272 Lintach tel:+49.9627.91261 fax:+49.9627.91262 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.asamnet/~knabguen On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, D E Radel wrote: Hi everyone. Error installing man-db

Re: man-db install error -FIXED

2002-02-10 Thread D E Radel
looks like an missing entry in /etc/passwd: --- /etc/passwd on _my_ system man:x:6:100:man:/var/cache/man:/bin/sh --- May be this entry was accidently deleted, just add it again with your favorite editor. Reinstallation of the package schould finish without error -- gk Thank you!

Re: man-db cron.daily job

2001-09-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 02:42:33AM +0100, Carlos Sousa wrote: Colin Watson wrote: (can't have been any vaguely recent version of man-db, as none of them run with root privileges ...). man-db can certainly work around it, my 'man' apparently runs with root privileges: $ ll /usr/lib/man

Re: man-db cron.daily job

2001-09-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 07:30:57AM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 02:42:33AM +0100, Carlos Sousa wrote: my 'man' apparently runs with root privileges: $ ll /usr/lib/man-db total 220 drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 Sep 26 00:55 ./ drwxr-xr-x 131 root

Re: man-db cron.daily job

2001-09-28 Thread Carlos Sousa
4096 Sep 27 23:30 /var/cache/man/cat7/ drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 27 23:30 /var/cache/man/cat8/ You might like to file a bug report against the man-db package, where we can sort this out in more detail. Is it man-db or is it me? I've been following this list for some time now, and I

Re: man-db cron.daily job

2001-09-28 Thread Colin Watson
a bug report against the man-db package, where we can sort this out in more detail. Is it man-db or is it me? I've been following this list for some time now, and I can't remember anyone complaining about this... I'm not sure what caused the permissions to be that way originally (can't have

Re: man-db cron.daily job

2001-09-28 Thread Carlos Sousa
Colin Watson wrote: (can't have been any vaguely recent version of man-db, as none of them run with root privileges ...). man-db can certainly work around it, my 'man' apparently runs with root privileges: $ ll /usr/lib/man-db total 220 drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 Sep 26 00:55

Re: man-db

2001-09-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 01:15:03AM +1000, Craig W ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, I am having problems with man-db, could someone please advise on why this is happening any solutions, pointers I can try. Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly

man-db cron.daily job

2001-09-27 Thread Carlos Sousa
On my machine root keeps getting email from cron saying rm: cannot unlink `/var/cache/man/cat8/(whatever).gz': Permission denied. I've traced this behaviour to the man-db cron job trying to remove stale files from the /var/cache/man tree while running as user 'man', because running

Re: man-db cron.daily job

2001-09-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 12:04:19AM +0100, Carlos Sousa wrote: On my machine root keeps getting email from cron saying rm: cannot unlink `/var/cache/man/cat8/(whatever).gz': Permission denied. I've traced this behaviour to the man-db cron job trying to remove stale files from the /var/cache

man-db

2001-09-26 Thread Craig W
Hi, I am having problems with man-db, could someone please advise on why this is happening any solutions, pointers I can try. Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly X-Cron-Env: SHELL=/bin/sh X-Cron-Env: PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin

Re: man-db

2001-09-26 Thread Peter Palmreuther
Hello Craig, On Wednesday, September 26, 2001 at 5:15:03 PM, you wrote (at least in part): Hi, I am having problems with man-db, could someone please advise on why this is happening any solutions, pointers I can try. ... run-parts: /etc/cron.weekly/man-db exited with return code 3 my

Re: man-db

2001-09-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 06:08:17PM +0200, Peter Palmreuther wrote: On Wednesday, September 26, 2001 at 5:15:03 PM, you wrote (at least in part): I am having problems with man-db, could someone please advise on why this is happening any solutions, pointers I can try. ... run-parts: /etc

Man-db cofigure error

2001-04-24 Thread Sang-Kyun Kim
dselect automatically upgrades man-db. But, it cannot be configured, display this error messge. - Setting up man-db (2.3.16-1.1) ... chown: man.root: invalid user dpkg: error processing man-db (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Re: Man-db cofigure error

2001-04-24 Thread Colin Watson
Sang-Kyun Kim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dselect automatically upgrades man-db. But, it cannot be configured, display this error messge. - Setting up man-db (2.3.16-1.1) ... chown: man.root: invalid user dpkg: error processing man-db (--configure): subprocess post

man-db mentions a number of bad Symlinks

1999-07-26 Thread Matthew Cordes
days ago. In fact I removed every bad symlink in each man directory, yet now they are back. It is as if man-db is doing this to me. can anyone explain what exactly man-db does. Obviously it compacts my man files. DOes it keep the originals anywhere? Anyone else have this problem?

Re: I can config man-db, the man command is unavaliable.

1998-10-19 Thread Alan Tam
I've just installed man-db and manpages from the following URL http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/doc/ follow the instructions, then man command IS avaliable with comfort. Alan Tam. ayin wrote: Dear Sir When I install the man-db package , the dselect utility tell me that I should have

Re: I can config man-db, the man command is unavaliable.

1998-10-16 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 16:53:15 +0800 ayin writes: Dear Sir When I install the man-db package , the dselect utility tell me that I should have groff. But groff need libg++272. The problem is that I have installed libg++272( the dselect show installed) , but the groff item still shows

I can config man-db, the man command is unavaliable.

1998-10-15 Thread ayin
Dear Sir When I install the man-db package , the dselect utility tell me that I should have groff. But groff need libg++272. The problem is that I have installed libg++272( the dselect show installed) , but the groff item still shows that libg++272 does not appear in the installed packages list

man-db

1998-08-29 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
Hola a la lista He estado recompilando el dsc 66 de man-db, y me ha ocurrido una cosa curiosa El configure que viene incluido, no soporta --with-db=db2, pero si lo borro, se regenera y entonces si lo soporta, es como si el configure y el configure.in no tuvieran que ver uno con otro. ¿Puede

Re: man-db

1998-08-29 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Sat, Aug 29, 1998 at 08:52:14AM +0200, Angel Vicente Perez wrote: El configure que viene incluido, no soporta --with-db=db2, pero si lo borro, se regenera y entonces si lo soporta, es como si el configure y el configure.in no tuvieran que ver uno con otro. ¿Puede ser un bug? Desde mi

man-db

1998-08-06 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
Hola a la lista... Estoy viendo el paquete man-db_2.3.10-65, en su version fuente, y he visto que el instalable que genera es de la forma: man-db_2.3.10-63*.deb ¿Esto es un error? En el fichero rules, se establece la variable my-version=63. Saludos. Angel Vicente Perez Dpto. Informática

man-db config problems

1998-07-09 Thread Jeff Schreiber
I keep getting this error whenever I try to configure anything through dselect: Checking for languages ... de_DECan't locate Getopt/Long.pm in @INC at /usr/sb in/chmanconfig line 38. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/chmanconfig line 38. dpkg: error processing man-db

Man-db and hamm

1998-06-04 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
In my old bo man-db package I was able to select the manual pages I get using the LANG variable. For example, after installing manpages-de and setting LANG=de_DE I was getting the german version if available. In the hamm version of man-db (2.3.10-63) this no longer works. Now it seems

Re: A need to manualy run /etc/cron.weekly/man-db

1998-02-27 Thread fpolacco
experienced this ? Yes. Please refer to the Debian-user faq: http://www.debian.org/cgi-bin/fom?file=58showEditCmds=1 it´s because the database of man-db is corrupted. The above reference (fom?...) is claims that the DB is getting corrupted and that rebuliding it solves the problem

Re: A need to manualy run /etc/cron.weekly/man-db

1998-02-26 Thread shaul
: http://www.debian.org/cgi-bin/fom?file=58showEditCmds=1 it´s because the database of man-db is corrupted. The above reference (fom?...) is claims that the DB is getting corrupted and that rebuliding it solves the problem. This is seems to an answer. However, it is also said that the DB

man-db installation problem ...

1998-02-26 Thread Nebu John Mathai
... de_DECan't locate Getopt/Long.pm in @INC at /usr/sbin/chmanconfig line 38. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/chmanconfig line 38. dpkg: error processing man-db (--install): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Thanks, Nebu -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: man-db installation problem ...

1998-02-26 Thread Adam Klein
. positive messages deleleted Checking for languages ... de_DECan't locate Getopt/Long.pm in @INC at /usr/sbin/chmanconfig line 38. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/chmanconfig line 38. dpkg: error processing man-db (--install): subprocess post-installation script

Re: man-db installation problem ...

1998-02-26 Thread Nebu John Mathai
Checking for languages ... de_DECan't locate Getopt/Long.pm in @INC at /usr/sbin/chmanconfig line 38. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/chmanconfig line 38. dpkg: error processing man-db (--install): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 You

Re: man-db installation problem ...

1998-02-26 Thread fpolacco
filed. ... a long history ... I avoid to comment on the request to have a pure debian system (without perl) that made changes into bo (1.3) which can be without perl installed (previous couldn't). This bug (which was passed as a hot potato between man-db, boot-floppies and perl-base), came

Re: A need to manualy run /etc/cron.weekly/man-db

1998-02-23 Thread Jens Ritter
to the Debian-user faq: http://www.debian.org/cgi-bin/fom?file=58showEditCmds=1 it´s because the database of man-db is corrupted. HTH, Jens --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key ID: 2048/E451C639 Jens Ritter Key fingerprint: 5F 3D 43 1E 24 1E CC 48 1E 05 93 3A A7 10 73 37 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

A need to manualy run /etc/cron.weekly/man-db

1998-02-20 Thread shaul
On a previous posting I said that I needed to run the mentioned cron script manualy. Now I found out when I had to run this script manualy. It turned out that it happaned after a shutdown command when I was logged to an xterm (and su to root). Prior to the shutdown I also had an xman window

help with man-db

1998-02-10 Thread Alex Yukhimets
Hi. I'm having problems with Motif man pages which I installed on my system. If I run, say, man XmString I get the following error messages: Reformatting XmString(3x), please wait... zsoelim: /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XmString.3x:292: \\$1: No such file or directory zsoelim: \\$1.gz: No such file or

Re: man-db ocassionally needs to be re-installed.

1997-10-16 Thread Andy Spiegl
output of dpkg -l '*man*' is here: pn man none (no description available) un man-aeb none (no description available) un man-browser none (no description available) ii man-db 2.3.10-38 Display the on-line manual. ii manpages1.15-4

Re: man-db ocassionally needs to be re-installed.

1997-10-16 Thread Fabrizio Polacco
Andy Spiegl wrote: This is a little off-topic, but related to man-pages, too. My problem is that - when running man -a as I always do - I often get to see man pages multiple times. Yes, and if you skip one choosing Ctrl-D its entry disappear from the next run (and from the whatis

Re: man-db ocassionally needs to be re-installed.

1997-10-13 Thread Joey Hess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Monthly, or more often, since installing Bo 1.3 on new system, I have had to re-install man-db, after getting segmentation faults whenever executing man. I don't believe this is related to libc6, as has been reported. It happens at almost random times. Perhaps

Re: man-db ocassionally needs to be re-installed.

1997-10-13 Thread Fabrizio Polacco
Joey Hess wrote: You might want to refer to bug reports #10483, #11278, etc at http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/pa/lman-db.html - the maintainer is aware of the problem, and I hope he figures out a fix soon. I have all the reports, but I wasn't able to reproduce the problem in any way. I've

man-db ocassionally needs to be re-installed.

1997-10-12 Thread adavis
Monthly, or more often, since installing Bo 1.3 on new system, I have had to re-install man-db, after getting segmentation faults whenever executing man. I don't believe this is related to libc6, as has been reported. It happens at almost random times. Perhaps certain package upgrades have

can't configure man-db, Long.pm missing

1997-07-10 Thread Pann McCuaig
I've installed 1.3.1 on a small (40MB) partition on my laptop. I did the base install, exited immediately from dselect, and have used dpkg to install just the packages I feel I need to have a real OS available. Configuration of man-db fails for lack of Long.pm (which is _not_ on my system

Re: can't configure man-db, Long.pm missing

1997-07-10 Thread James Troup
Pann McCuaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've installed 1.3.1 on a small (40MB) partition on my laptop. I did the base install, exited immediately from dselect, and have used dpkg to install just the packages I feel I need to have a real OS available. Configuration of man-db fails for lack

Re: man-db install script problem (chmanconfig)

1997-06-21 Thread John M. Rulnick
Thank you, Christian. Yes, man-db's unspecified dependency on perl appears to be the problem. And so it seems, as BG Lim pointed out (thank you), that this is a small packaging bug. Thanks, folks. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: man-db install script problem (chmanconfig)

1997-06-20 Thread Christian Meder
-debug Conflicts: io and it did succeed installing man-db. Greetings, Christian -- Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the railroad to me ? I never go to see Where it ends. It fills a few hollows, And makes banks for the swallows, It sets the sand

Re: man-db install script problem (chmanconfig)

1997-06-20 Thread BG Lim
The problem is that the script needs Long.pm, which (I think), is a Perl script. Install Perl from interpreters and it should be fine. I think this is a bug, because perl is big and not many people esp newbies want it or need it, just to install man, which shoudl be the first thing any newbie

man-db install script problem (chmanconfig)

1997-06-19 Thread John M. Rulnick
Checking for languages ... de_DECan't locate Getopt/Long.pm in @INC at /usr/sbin/chmanconfig line 38. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/chmanconfig line 38. dpkg: error processing man-db (--install): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors