On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 08:06:48PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 10:08:15AM +0300, Fabrizio Polacco wrote: > > * pager not working properly (terminal settings gone) > > I have this. I have this as well. ii man-db 2.3.10-69e Display the on-line manual. > > * infinite loop if /usr/local/man does not exist. > > I have /usr/local/man, so I can't test this. I don't have this problem; I mv'ed /usr/local/man to a different name and saw no changes in man's behavior; neither on manpages that already had a catman version, nor ones it couldn't find, e.g: man nothing Updating index cache for path `/usr/X11R6/man'. Wait...done. No manual entry for nothing > > * does downgrading man-db to a previous version solve the problems? > > Yes. All the previous versions you gave and the slink version are okay. I didn't try downgrading. > > * does downgrading libc to a 2.0 version (while keeping latest man) > > solve the problems? > > I will not test this. I have this problem, and am tracking potato EXCEPT for the glibc2.1 and related packages: ii libc6 2.0.7.19981211 GNU C Library: shared libraries > > * does recompiling man-db in a glibc-dev 2.1 env solve the problem? > > No. Didn't try this. Between Antti's response and mine, I suspect the terminal problem is a good old-fashioned thinko somewhere that has nothing to do with libc. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | Music is the brandy of the damned. branden@ecn.purdue.edu | -- George Bernard Shaw cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |
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