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Re: Problems installing man-db


Angelo Graziosi wrote:
Updating Cygwin64, Setup installed the Base package man-db. The
postinstall script man-db.sh, after many minutes, terminated abnormally
with exit code 139:

$ tail -n 30 /var/log/setup.log.full
[...]
2014/06/19 01:06:31 running: C:\cygwin64\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
"/etc/postinstall/man-db.sh"
Updating index cache for path `/usr/share/man/man1'. Wait...
Processing manual pages under /usr/share/man...
/usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/col.1.gz: whatis parse for
col(1) failed
/usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/csh.1 is a dangling symlink
/usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/d2u.1.gz: whatis parse for
d2u(1) failed
/usr/bin/mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man1/djvuxml.1: No such file
or directory
/usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/djvutoxml.1.gz: bad symlink
or ROFF `.so' request
/usr/bin/mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man1/djvuxml.1: No such file
or directory
/usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/djvuxmlparser.1.gz: bad
symlink or ROFF `.so' request
/usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/escp2topbm.1.gz: whatis
parse for escp2topbm(1) failed
/usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/mac2unix.1.gz: whatis parse
for mac2unix(1) failed
/usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/u2d.1.gz: whatis parse for
u2d(1) failed
/usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/unix2dos.1.gz: whatis parse
for unix2dos(1) failed
/usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/unix2mac.1.gz: whatis parse
for unix2mac(1) failed
Updating index cache for path `/usr/share/man/man2'. Wait...
Updating index cache for path `/usr/share/man/man3'. Wait...
/usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/CPAN.Debug.3pm.gz: whatis
parse for CPAN.Debug(3pm) failed
/usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/CPAN.HandleConfig.3pm.gz:
whatis parse for CPAN.HandleConfig(3pm) failed
/usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/CPAN.Queue.3pm.gz: whatis
parse for CPAN.Queue(3pm) failed
/usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/CPAN.Tarzip.3pm.gz: whatis
parse for CPAN.Tarzip(3pm) failed
/usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/libpm.3.gz: whatis parse
for libpm(3) failed
/usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/pcredemo.3.gz: whatis parse
for pcredemo(3) failed
/usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/TAP.Harness.Beyond.3pm.gz:
whatis parse for TAP.Harness.Beyond(3pm) failed
/etc/postinstall/man-db.sh: line 12: 2512 Segmentation fault (core
dumped) /usr/bin/mandb -c
2014/06/19 01:18:36 abnormal exit: exit code=139
2014/06/19 01:18:36 Changing gid to Administrators
2014/06/19 01:18:45 note: Installation Complete
2014/06/19 01:18:45 Ending cygwin install

How to fix this?

Hmmm...well, that's not good. Can you run /usr/bin/mandb -c yourself from the command line? It will take a while and may generate several warnings, such as what you see above.


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