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RE: pinfo-0.6.9-1 -- Size and Crash
- From: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]" <BBuchbinder at niaid dot nih dot gov>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:17:15 -0400
- Subject: RE: pinfo-0.6.9-1 -- Size and Crash
Dr. Volker Zell wrote on Wednesday, August 15, 2007 10:59 AM:
>>>>>> Barry Buchbinder writes:
>
> > (2) Crash
>
> > This is more serious. However, since I cannot imagine pinfo
> could be > crashing without others having already reported it, I
> expect that it is > a problem with my installation and I'd
> appreciate hints (or, better yet, > explicit instructions) as to
> how I might trouble-shoot it.
>
> I have found it crashes when there is no dir file in the directories
> pointed to by INFOPATH:
>
> For example my packages xemacs-sumo and xemacs-mule-sumo both have
> info directories which are used by xemacs but by default have no dir
> file.
>
> 04:51 PM [544]> INFOPATH=/usr/share/xemacs/xemacs-packages/info pinfo
> Przemek's Info Viewer v0.6.9 *** starting debugger for pid 4812, tid
> 5032
Thanks for your response. As it happens, I played with it this morning
and tried updating the dir file. That fixed it. (Coincidently, I
finished just about the time that your email arrive!)
For the archives, the following seemed to fix the problem for me. I
ignore the error messages.
/> rm /usr/share/info/dir
/> /bin/find /usr -iname \*.info\* | sed -e 's,^,install-info
--dir-file=/usr/share/info/dir --info-file=,' | sh -s
/>
Thanks again for your response,
- Barry
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