On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 12:37:05AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > My suggestion: > > - rename /usr/X11R6/man/man3 to /usr/X11/man/man3-bak > > - create a directory /usr/X11R6/man/man3 > > - create symlinks for half the files in man3-bak: > > $ cd /usr/X11R6/man/man3 > $ for file in $( ls ../man3-bak/* | head -495 ); > do > ln -s "$file" "$( basename file )" > done > > - re-run mandb. If you get the problem, remove half the files and > try again. If you don't get the problem, replace the 'head' above > with 'tail', and see if it appears. > > - If you can't repeat the problem, then we've found something that > works.
I'm afraid none of that will work - it turns out it's the database (/var/cache/man/X11R6/index.bt) that's broken, not the man pages. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]