Achim Gratz writes:
> Well, that file it tries to create is a temporary file (the filename is
> the PID of the process creating it), so if that same process can create
> directories and files, but then fails to create abother file, something
> else must be interfering with it.
The particular error
Andrey Repin writes:
> Turned out, I can easily reproduce it by
>
>> # rm -rf /var/cache/man && mkdir /var/cache/man && touch
>> /var/cache/man/index.db && mandb
>> Purging old database entries in /usr/share/man...
>> mandb: can't update index cache /var/cache/man/2070: No such file or
>> directo
Greetings, Achim Gratz!
> Achim Gratz writes:
>> Does /var/cache/man exist and are the permissions sane?
Yes, and perms are mostly irrelevant, cause I install from elevated prompt.
/var/cache/man
# icacls . | iconv -f CP866
. daemon2\anrdaemon:(F)
daemon2\None:(RX)
Everyone:(RX)
CREATOR-OW
Achim Gratz writes:
> Does /var/cache/man exist and are the permissions sane? I guess I need
> to make sure this gets created when installing the package, will note
> that for the next release.
I checked and it is already packaged. So, what are the
permissions/contents? If it exists, move it aw
Andrey Repin writes:
> I've checked the database creation out of pure curiosity and it seems there's
> more than one issue with the process.
>
> 1. Running script from the setup postinstall process causes errors like
>
> /usr/bin/mandb: can't update index cache /var/cache/man/1384: No such file or
Greetings, Achim Gratz!
> The man-db package is updated to the latest upstream version 2.10.0.
> Man-db is an implementation of the standard Unix documentation system
> accessed using the man command. It uses a Berkeley DB database in place
> of the traditional flat-text whatis databases. This
The man-db package is updated to the latest upstream version 2.10.0.
Man-db is an implementation of the standard Unix documentation system
accessed using the man command. It uses a Berkeley DB database in place
of the traditional flat-text whatis databases. This release includes a
performance e
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