ran ' sudo /etc/cron.daily/man-db': apropos, whatis, man -k are working
now, thanks.
This is Ubuntu 8.04 server, it looks like the problem may actually be
with cron not running, is this a known bug?
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apropos, whatis, man -k are broken, makewhatis is missing. Hardy heron i386
server.
Public bug reported:
'apropos', 'whatis' and 'man -k' always return 'nothing appropriate', it
seems that there is no whatis database.
'sudo makewhatis' command is missing.
'sudo find / -name makewhatis' can't find it.
'sudo apt-get install makewhatis' can't find it.
Found in Ubuntu Hardy
Public bug reported:
I have been getting several problems with when extracting files from archives
or copying files from CD's.
The only common feature I can find is that the errors seem to happen when
folders are being created or modified recursively.
Platform: Ubuntu 7.10 (though I have also
Still not fixed yet in Ubuntu 7.10 AMD64, I tried as above:
aptitude install xserver-xorg-core=2:1.3.0.0.dfsg-12ubuntu8
aptitude safe-upgrade
reboot
dpkg -s xserver-xorg-core
to show:
Version: 2:1.3.0.0.dfsg-12ubuntu8.3
but:
sudo X :1 -once -query [IPv4 address of remote xclient]
still comes up
Public bug reported:
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.6.3-0ubuntu3
Trackerd seems to have a memory leak, I found this creating deleting
about 85 small (0-2k) temporary text files every minute. After 30
minutes the process was running at half speed, after 4 hours the process
had virtually stopped
