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 dat

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

1997-10-16 Thread Andy Spiegl
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. See this as an example: ~>man -w rename /usr/man/man2/rename.2.gz /var/catman/cat2/rename.2.gz /usr/man/man3/rename.3tcl.gz /var/ca

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'

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 c

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 caus