On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 06:59:36PM +0000, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote: > On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 11:17:24AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 12:08:09AM +0000, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote: > > > Output from /usr/bin/mandb: > > > > > > /usr/bin/mandb: warning: /var/cache/man/cat1/mupdf.1.gz: whatis parse for > > > mupdf(1) failed > > > > > > [...] > > > > mandb already seems to do the right things to handle the format of cat > > pages, and I can't seem to provoke this error here. Could you please > > attach /var/cache/man/cat1/mupdf.1.gz so that I can investigate further? > > > > I have here another file (attachment), test.1.gz (from my > cat1-directory), that could be on your computer or (unformatted) in > your man1-directory. > The warning is issued, when only a cat-file exists. When I ran "/etc/cron.weekly/man-db" (changed, directing error output to a file), I got for example this
Updating index cache for path `/usr/share/man/man1'. Wait... done. Checking for stray cats under /usr/share/man... Checking for stray cats under /var/cache/man... /usr/bin/mandb: warning: /var/cache/man/cat1/CACHEDIR.TAG: ignoring bogus filename col: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character /usr/bin/mandb: warning: /var/cache/man/cat1/mupdf.1.gz: whatis parse for mupdf(1) failed The mupdf.1.gz cat1-file is in the attacment N.B. To the warning from "col" the name of the offending file should be added. -- Bjarni I. Gislason
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