more man issues?

[Allen Hewes]

>
> The postinstall script should have reinstated that file as a copy from
> /etc/defaults/etc/man_db.conf.  Can you check if you've got an error in
> /var/log/setup.log.full from /etc/postinstall/man-db.sh and what it was?
> You should be able to re-install man-db to have that script run again.
>

2021/01/05 09:53:46 running: C:\cygwin64\bin\dash.exe "/etc/postinstall/0p_update-info-dir.dash"
2021/01/05 09:53:47 running: C:\cygwin64\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/man-db.sh"
2021/01/05 09:53:47 running: C:\cygwin64\bin\dash.exe "/etc/postinstall/man-db-create-index.dash"
2021/01/05 09:53:47 running: C:\cygwin64\bin\dash.exe "/etc/postinstall/man-db-index-synchronously.dash"
2021/01/05 09:53:48 running: C:\cygwin64\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/zp_adwaita-icon-theme.sh"
2021/01/05 09:53:48 running: C:\cygwin64\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/zp_desktop-file-utils.sh"
2021/01/05 09:53:48 running: C:\cygwin64\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/zp_fontconfig_cache_1.sh"
2021/01/05 09:53:50 running: C:\cygwin64\bin\dash.exe "/etc/postinstall/zp_fontconfig_dtd.dash"
2021/01/05 09:53:50 running: C:\cygwin64\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/zp_glib2.0.sh"
2021/01/05 09:53:50 running: C:\cygwin64\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/zp_hicolor-icon-theme.sh"
2021/01/05 09:53:50 running: C:\cygwin64\bin\dash.exe "/etc/postinstall/zp_man-db-update-index.dash"
  ManDB index update starting...
  ... ManDB index update complete.
/etc/postinstall/zp_man-db-update-index.dash: 14: exec: 3: not found
2021/01/05 09:56:07 running: C:\cygwin64\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/zp_shared-mime-info.sh"
2021/01/05 09:56:08 Changing gid to Administrators

I ran C:\cygwin64\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/man-db.sh" manually at a bash prompt and I got back the /etc/man_db.conf file.

I don't know if this has any bearing, but there's *.done files for the post install man scripts:
ls -al /etc/postinstall/ | grep man
-rwxr-xr-x  1 allen Domain Users  258 Jan  7 14:44 man-db.sh*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 allen Domain Users  258 Jan  4 09:55 man-db.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 allen Domain Users   78 Jan  7 14:44 man-db-create-index.dash*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 allen Domain Users   78 Jan  4 09:55 man-db-create-index.dash.done*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 allen Domain Users   56 Jan  7 14:44 man-db-index-synchronously.dash*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 allen Domain Users   56 Jan  4 09:55 man-db-index-synchronously.dash.done*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 allen Domain Users  775 Jan  7 14:44 zp_man-db-update-index.dash*

/allen

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