Problems installing man-db

[Chris J. Breisch]

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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Chris J. Breisch

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