Dear Fellow Debian Users:
(let me know if I've posted this to the wrong place; I don't think
it's a Debian bug per-se, but a local installation problem I can't
solve).
I'm running Debian-1.3 on two machines, my home computer and my
work computer. My home computer runs man just fine, but on my
work computer, man doesn't work.
If I type man whatever, some disk activity and CPU are used, but
then the man process appears to just hang (no more disk or CPU
consumed). I know that man is actually a front-end to several processing
steps, so I suspect that one of the intermediate steps is hanging.
I have deinstalled and reinstalled packages relevant to man and
the problem has not gone away.
I can read manpages using the following:
zcat /usr/man/man1/whatever.gz | nroff -man | less
If I hit control-c during the processing of the man page, I see:
/bin/gzip -dc '/var/catman/cat3/dlopen.3.gz' | \
{ export MAN_PN LESS; MAN_PN='dlopen(3)';\
LESS=$LESS\$-Pm\:\$ix8mPm Manual page $MAN_PN ?ltline %lt?L/%L.:byte %bB?s/%s.
.?e (END):?pB %pB\\%..;
less; }
and if I enter that into the shell, I can read the manpage.
Here is a tail of the strace of a man that locks up:
Script started on Thu Jan 8 12:39:57 1998
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~
strace man dlopen
execve(/usr/bin/man, [man, dlopen], [/* 35 vars */]) = 0
mmap(0, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40007
000
mprotect(0x4000, 20301, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
mprotect(0x800, 68846, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
stat(/etc/ld.so.cache, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=7501, ...}) = 0
open(/etc/ld.so.cache, O_RDONLY) = 3
mmap(0, 7501, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 3, 0) = 0x40008000
close(3)= 0
stat(/etc/ld.so.preload, 0xb600) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open(/usr/lib/libdb.so.1, O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, \177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3..., 4096) = 4096
mmap(0, 61440, PROT_NONE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x4000a000
mmap(0x4000a000, 55899, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0) = 0x4
000a000
mmap(0x40018000, 3304, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0xd000)
= 0x40018000
close(3)= 0
mprotect(0x4000a000, 55899, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
open(/lib/libc.so.5, O_RDONLY)= 3
blah blah blah
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=6047, ...}) = 0
mmap(0, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40008
000
read(3, .\\\ -*- nroff -*-\n.\\\ Copyr..., 4096) = 4096
close(3)= 0
munmap(0x40008000, 4096)= 0
access(./mandb_nfmt, X_OK)= -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat(/usr/man/man3/dlopen.3.gz, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2656, ...}) =
0
stat(/usr/man/cat3/dlopen.3.gz, 0xb3f8) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or dire
ctory)
stat(/usr/man/man3/dlopen.3.gz, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2656, ...}) =
0
stat(/var/catman/cat3/dlopen.3.gz, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2565, ...})
= 0
stat(/var/catman/cat3, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=1024, ...}) = 0
access(/var/catman/cat3/dlopen.3.gz, R_OK) = 0
geteuid() = 6
geteuid() = 6
setuid(2899)= 0
sigaction(SIGINT, {SIG_IGN}, {SIG_DFL}) = 0
sigaction(SIGQUIT, {SIG_IGN}, {SIG_DFL}) = 0
sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], []) = 0
fork() = 2106
wait4(2106, unfinished ...
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Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] David Konerding WWW: http://picasso.ucsf.edu/~dek
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