On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 09:41:27AM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote: > On Mon 12 Feb 2001, Jon Leonard wrote: > > > > I worked around it by recompiling it: > > apt-get --compile source man-db, and then doing a dpkg -i on the resulting > > .deb file. I had to do a hold in dselect as well, because otherwise it > > wants to re-"upgrade" the package. > > > > Gvim is similarly misbuilt... > > > > I don't know the right way to ask for a rebuild of a package. > > Asking here is basically a good way :-) > > I wonder whether that's the right way to go, however; on my system > (updated to unstable almost every day), I've never seen this problem > with man. This makes me wonder if perhaps you have some outdated libs > or whatever that causes this, and by recompiling against those outdated > libs the problem would probably go away (as apparently it did in your > case). > > And as for gvim, what do you mean exactly when you say "similarly > misbuilt"? Also gives errors when typing "man pam" ? :-) I haven't > tried gvim (I try to stay away from the mouse as much as possible), > but vim is just fine.
Ok, I'll be more verbose. (And I don't like mice either, but my wife likes having gvim available, so...) There are 3 packages that are currently giving me trouble: w3m, man-db, and vim-gtk. The problem with w3m is that it wants a newer version of libc than I have: dselect - recursive package listing mark:+/=/- verbose:v help:? EIOM Pri Section Package Description *** Opt text w3m WWW browsable pager with excellent tables/frames *** Req base libc6.1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone data [snip] w3m installed ; install (was: install). Optional w3m depends on libc6.1 (>= 2.1.97) w3m suggests w3m-ssl (>= 0.1.10+0.1.11pre+kokb23-1) frost->jleonard% dpkg -l libc6.1 Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==============-==============-============================================ ii libc6.1 2.1.3-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone Telling dselect to hold w3m gets me past that, which lets me install the current versions of all the packages (as seen by dselect with my sources.list). The problem with man is looks like this: frost->jleonard% man vi Reformatting vi(1), please wait... [blank screen in the pager] sh: ../debian/tmp/usr/bin/zsoelim: No such file or directory Manual page vi(1) line ?/? (END) It only generates the zsoelim message once for each man page looked at, though installing a man-db package resets that. My best guess would be that man-db was compiled on a system with zsoelim in an unusual place, and the binary is remembering that path. For vim: frost->jleonard% rehash frost->jleonard% which gvim gvim: Command not found. This is suprising, because I have vim-gtk installed. After I install the version I got from "apt-get --compile source man-db", man works: frost:/usr/src/packages/man-db# dpkg -i man-db_2.3.16-1.1_alpha.deb (Reading database ... 48788 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace man-db 2.3.16-1.1 (using man-db_2.3.16-1.1_alpha.deb) ... Removing catpages as well as /var/cache/man hierarchy. Unpacking replacement man-db ... Setting up man-db (2.3.16-1.1) ... Building manual page index in background. After the (long compile) vim rebuild/install, then gvim works: frost:/usr/src/packages/vim# apt-get --compile source vim ... frost:/usr/src/packages/vim# dpkg -i vim-gtk_5.6.070-1_alpha.deb I suspect that the vim-gtk was built on a system that didn't have gtk installed at the time, so the configure step built a non-graphical vim. Doing install in dselect re-breaks man & gvim. My sources.list may be (part of) the problem. It contains: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/ stable/non-US contrib main non-free deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/ stable/non-US contrib main non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ potato/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://security.debian.org/ potato/updates main contrib non-free deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian dists/proposed-updates/ deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian dists/proposed-updates/ Would any more information help to diagnose the problem? My system is a 21164A, if that's any help... frost->jleonard% cat /proc/cpuinfo cpu : Alpha cpu model : EV56 cpu variation : 0 cpu revision : 0 cpu serial number : Linux_is_Great! system type : EB164 system variation : LX164 system revision : 0 system serial number : MILO-2.0.35-c5. cycle frequency [Hz] : 599828904 timer frequency [Hz] : 1024.00 page size [bytes] : 8192 phys. address bits : 40 max. addr. space # : 127 BogoMIPS : 593.49 kernel unaligned acc : 0 (pc=0,va=0) user unaligned acc : 39158409 (pc=12004e170,va=1203801d2) platform string : N/A cpus detected : 0 Thanks, Jon Leonard
