Recent problem with man-db-update

Paquet André Earl andre.earl.paquet@umontreal.ca
Wed Jan 6 22:23:38 GMT 2021 

Good afternoon,

                                   I have been a user of CYGWIN for many years.  I have a full (everything) installation (see article 2.12 of the FAQ).

                                   I update my installation every day (completely, see article 2.12), so this is the reason I know the problem I am reporting is very recent (a few days). This problem appeared on my two PCs. Also, just to make sure, I completely removed CYGWIN yesterday on one of the PCs and re-installed it from scratch : the problem still persists after that so this is clearly a new bug.

                                   If you want to know, both my PCs run version 20H2 of Windows Pro (the upgrade was made 3 weeks ago, so that is not the cause of the problem).

                                   The problem is the following : when I update Cygwin, it now blocks (after two or three hours of being blocked there, I just stop the procedure ...) at this stage :

                                           Running ...

                                           z/Perpetual

                                           /etc/postinstall/zp_man-db-update-index.dash

                                   The contents of the setup.log.runX...  is :

  ManDB index update starting...
  ... ManDB index update complete.
/etc/postinstall/zp_man-db-update-index.dash: 14: exec: 3: not found

                                  It is probably not related to my problem, but the contents of  mandb-index.log is not clean (this is the log after a fresh clean installation) :

Updating index cache for path `/usr/man/man1'. Wait...
Processing manual pages under /usr/man...
done.
Updating index cache for path `/usr/share/man/man0p'. Wait...
Checking for stray cats under /usr/man...
Checking for stray cats under /var/cache/man/fsstnd...
Purging old database entries in /usr/share/man...
Processing manual pages under /usr/share/man...
Updating index cache for path `/usr/share/man/man1'. Wait...
/usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/ANNOUNCE-2.5.1.gz: whatis parse for ANNOUNCE-2.5(1) failed
/usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/autoscan-2.69.1.gz: whatis parse for autoscan-2.69(1) failed
/usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/cgi-fcgi.1.gz: whatis parse for cgi-fcgi(1) failed
/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/faxformat.1.gz: whatis parse for faxformat(1) failed
/usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/imv.1 is a dangling symlink
/usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/inkscape.el.1.gz: whatis parse for inkscape.el(1) failed
/usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/inkscape.sk.1.gz: whatis parse for inkscape.sk(1) failed
/usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/man: ignoring bogus filename
/usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/pamfixtrunc.1.gz: whatis parse for pamfixtrunc(1) failed
/usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/pampaintspill.1.gz: whatis parse for pampaintspill(1) failed
/usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/pnmflip.1.gz: whatis parse for pnmflip(1) failed
/usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/pp.1.gz: whatis parse for pp(1) failed
/usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/ppmtogif.1.gz: whatis parse for ppmtogif(1) failed
/usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/qcp.1 is a dangling symlink
/usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/qmv.1 is a dangling symlink
/usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/stg.1: whatis parse for stg(1) failed
/usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/xgraph.man.gz: ignoring bogus filename
/usr/bin/mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man1/xmonui.1x: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/xmond.1.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request
Updating index cache for path `/usr/share/man/man1p'. Wait...
Updating index cache for path `/usr/share/man/man3'. Wait...
/usr/bin/mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man3/lapacke_utils.h.3: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/ABS.3.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request
/usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/Biber.Annotation.3pm.gz: whatis parse for Biber.Annotation(3pm) failed
/usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/build.Wx.build.MakeMaker.Win32_MSVC.3pm.gz: whatis parse for build.Wx.build.MakeMaker.Win32_MSVC(3pm) failed
/usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/build.Wx.XSP.Overload.3pm.gz: whatis parse for build.Wx.XSP.Overload(3pm) failed
/usr/bin/mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man3/libcaca.3caca: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/caca_create_canvas.3caca.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request
/usr/bin/mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man3/libcaca.3caca: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/caca_free_canvas.3caca.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request
/usr/bin/mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man3/libcaca.3caca: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/caca_get_canvas_attrs.3caca.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request
/usr/bin/mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man3/libcaca.3caca: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/caca_get_canvas_chars.3caca.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request
/usr/bin/mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man3/libcaca.3caca: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/caca_get_canvas_height.3caca.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request
/usr/bin/mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man3/libcaca.3caca: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/caca_get_canvas_width.3caca.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request
/usr/bin/mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man3/libcaca.3caca: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/caca_get_version.3caca.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request
/usr/bin/mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man3/libcaca.3caca: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/caca_manage_canvas.3caca.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request
/usr/bin/mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man3/libcaca.3caca: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/caca_set_canvas_size.3caca.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request
/usr/bin/mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man3/libcaca.3caca: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/caca_unmanage_canvas.3caca.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request
/usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/common.sense.3pm.gz: whatis parse for common.sense(3pm) failed
/usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/FCGI_Accept.3.gz: whatis parse for FCGI_Accept(3) failed
/usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/FCGI_Finish.3.gz: whatis parse for FCGI_Finish(3) failed
/usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/FCGI_SetExitStatus.3.gz: whatis parse for FCGI_SetExitStatus(3) failed
/usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/FCGI_StartFilterData.3.gz: whatis parse for FCGI_StartFilterData(3) failed

I hope someone can do something about that.

Yours truly,

André




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