Hi everyone, I'm using OpenSuse 10.0, patched and updated. Every time I try to read a manpage I get the following error: gdbm fatal: lseek error I haven't really tried anything yet because I'm not quite sure where to start. I haven't yet seen it happen with anything else, only when I'm using 'man', and that's on every man page that I try. I've gone through a couple of automatic patches thinking there might be a fix, but so far no luck. Would someone be so kind as to point me in the right direction? Thanks, Rob Wright suserob@poncacity.net
On Thursday 09 March 2006 01:16, Rob Wright wrote:
Hi everyone,
I'm using OpenSuse 10.0, patched and updated. Every time I try to read a manpage I get the following error:
gdbm fatal: lseek error
I haven't really tried anything yet because I'm not quite sure where to start. I haven't yet seen it happen with anything else, only when I'm using 'man', and that's on every man page that I try. I've gone through a couple of automatic patches thinking there might be a fix, but so far no luck.
Would someone be so kind as to point me in the right direction?
It sounds like your mandb database is corrupt. You might want to try rm /var/cache/man/index.db followed by mandb Both commands have to be run as root
Thanks,
Rob Wright suserob@poncacity.net
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On Wednesday March 8 2006 18:35, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Thursday 09 March 2006 01:16, Rob Wright wrote:
Hi everyone,
I'm using OpenSuse 10.0, patched and updated. Every time I try to read a manpage I get the following error:
gdbm fatal: lseek error
It sounds like your mandb database is corrupt. You might want to try
rm /var/cache/man/index.db
followed by
mandb
Anders, Thanks! That was exactly it. Problem solved. Rob
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