[sorry, I'm not on the list, checked the reply from the archives] > On Wed, 28 May 2003 12:23:23 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > >On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 04:20:32PM +0530, Amit Shah wrote: > > It takes quite a long while on my system to open man pages... I did an > > strace on man. The output of strace is pasted below. Notice the > > Timeouts in selects. > > > > Any suggestions? > > This is bug #137908 (I thought it sounded familiar, but it took a little > while to find it in my mail archives), and was worked around in man-db > 2.4.0-1 after the woody release. > > You can work around it yourself without upgrading: run 'find > /var/cache/man -name index.bt | xargs ls -l' and delete any that are 0 > bytes long. Also, make sure that you're not running low on disk space in > /var.
Thanks, Colin. it worked... 3 files were listed, and all three were 0-sized. Amit. -- Amit Shah http://amitshah.nav.to/ A: No. Q: Should I include quotations after my reply? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
