I've been getting gdbm fatal: read error when trying to use man pages recently. Does anyone know what this might mean? A fix is to remove /usr/local/man from the MANPATH. There is actually nothing in /usr/local/man except the standard man* folder. All the permissions in /usr/local/man are the same as those in /usr/share/man. All suggestions welcome. JDL
Hi, Did you ever get a response? I have the same problem, and although I edited the manpath config file as described below, it's using $MANPATH, which I can't find, and which still has the empty file listed. Stan Koper ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Lamb" <J.D.Lamb@btinternet.com> To: <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2002 8:08 AM Subject: [SLE] gdbm fatal: read error (man pages)
I've been getting
gdbm fatal: read error
when trying to use man pages recently. Does anyone know what this might mean?
A fix is to remove /usr/local/man from the MANPATH. There is actually nothing in /usr/local/man except the standard man* folder. All the permissions in /usr/local/man are the same as those in /usr/share/man.
All suggestions welcome.
JDL
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* Stan Koper <skoper@attbi.com> [06-29-02 10:53]:
Hi,
Did you ever get a response? I have the same problem, and although I edited the manpath config file as described below, it's using $MANPATH, which I can't find, and which still has the empty file listed.
Stan Koper
"John Lamb" <J.D.Lamb@btinternet.com> I've been getting
gdbm fatal: read error
when trying to use man pages recently. Does anyone know what this might mean?
A fix is to remove /usr/local/man from the MANPATH. There is actually nothing in /usr/local/man except the standard man* folder. All the permissions in /usr/local/man are the same as those in /usr/share/man.
Read /usr/share/doc/packages/gdbm/README. May give you a place for further research. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org
Stan Koper wrote:
Hi,
Did you ever get a response? I have the same problem, and although I edited the manpath config file as described below, it's using $MANPATH, which I can't find, and which still has the empty file listed.
I never got a response. The specific solution I had was to put the following line at the end of my .bashrc file. export MANPATH=/usr/share/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/opt/gnome/man I didn't find anything useful in /usr/share/doc/packages/gdbm/README. I suspect the problem is with accessing the directory /usr/local/man since I can read /usr/man without problems. JDL
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