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catman broken??? under OSF/1 V2.0
There are a few "man" pages that I cannot view on my ALPHA 3000 / 600.
If I try to do the following:
# man dxcalendar
Reformatting page. Wait...sh: 8426 Memory fault - core dumped
aborted (sorry)
I tried talking to the DEC Support and they suggested that I
de-install and re-install the MAN pages from my CDROM using "setld -d" and
"setld -l" respectively. And then after the install try running "catman".
Well, here is the start of the long list of errors.
# catman
sh: 8336 Memory fault - core dumped
catman: nroff: cat1/lwkmanager.1X: exit status 35584
sh: 8342 Memory fault - core dumped
catman: nroff: cat1/dxvdoc.1X: exit status 35584
sh: 8348 Memory fault - core dumped
catman: nroff: cat1/dxterm.1X: exit status 35584
catman: symlink: cat1/dxpause.1X: File exists
sh: 8354 Memory fault - core dumped
catman: nroff: cat1/dxsession.1X: exit status 35584
sh: 8360 Memory fault - core dumped
catman: nroff: cat1/dxpaint.1X: exit status 35584
sh: 8366 Memory fault - core dumped
catman: nroff: cat1/dxnotepad.1X: exit status 35584
sh: 8372 Memory fault - core dumped
catman: nroff: cat1/dxmail.1X: exit status 35584
sh: 8378 Memory fault - core dumped
catman: nroff: cat1/dxdiff.1X: exit status 35584
sh: 8384 Memory fault - core dumped
catman: nroff: cat1/dxcardfiler.1X: exit status 35584
sh: 8390 Memory fault - core dumped
catman: nroff: cat1/dxcalendar.1X: exit status 35584
sh: 8396 Memory fault - core dumped
All of these files are stored within the sub-directories of "/usr/share/man".
# ls -l /usr/share
drwxr-xr-x 2 root system 512 Feb 22 05:30 dict
drwxr-xr-x 4 root system 512 Feb 22 05:30 doclib
drwxr-xr-x 13 root system 1024 Mar 5 11:56 lib
drwxr-xr-x 14 bin bin 512 May 10 16:50 man
drwxr-xr-x 2 root system 512 Feb 22 05:30 mk
-rwxr-xr-x 1 bin bin 64 Mar 1 20:07 uwsvers
# ls -l /usr/share/man
drwxr-xr-x 2 bin mem 7168 May 10 16:51 cat1
drwxrwxrwx 2 root bin 4096 May 10 15:37 cat2
drwxrwxrwx 2 root bin 7168 May 10 15:39 cat3
drwxr-xr-x 2 bin mem 512 May 3 10:58 cat5
drwxr-xr-x 2 bin mem 512 May 10 15:13 cat8
-rw------- 1 root bin 1114112 May 10 16:57 core
drwxr-xr-x 2 root system 10240 May 10 15:30 man1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root system 4096 May 10 15:29 man2
drwxr-xr-x 2 root system 69632 May 10 15:30 man3
drwxr-xr-x 2 root system 3584 May 10 15:30 man4
drwxr-xr-x 2 root system 512 May 10 15:30 man5
drwxr-xr-x 2 root system 1536 May 10 15:30 man7
drwxr-xr-x 2 root system 6656 May 10 15:30 man8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 177904 May 10 15:31 whatis
Is this a problem of file permissions? Because some of the MAN pages work.
For example,
# man ls
ls(1) ls(1)
NAME
ls - Lists and generates statistics for files
SYNOPSIS
ls [-aAbcCdfFgilLmnopqrRstux1] [file ... | directory ...]
The ls command writes to standard output the contents of each specified
directory or the name of each specified file, along with any other informa-
tion you ask for with flags. If you do not specify a file or a directory,
ls displays the contents of the current directory.
FLAGS
-a Lists all entries in the directory, including the entries that begin
with a . (dot). Entries that begin with a . are not displayed unless
you refer to them specifically, or you specify the -a flag.
-A Lists all entries, except . (dot) and .. (dot-dot). If you issue the
ls.1 (7%)
#
# man catman
Reformatting page. Wait...sh: 8439 Memory fault
aborted (sorry)
#
Has anybody else seen this problem?
I will surely summarize!
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