mikshaw
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Posted: June 23 2005,04:45 |
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I don't know how long this has been happening, since i'd never used man in DSL before, but there seems to be a problem related to man and possibly mandb and/or whatis.
Try using tab completion with man and your terminal will freeze up with an odd-looking error message (freeze may not be the proper term, but i failed to return to a prompt with Ctrl+c). It's not directly related to the net man application, because strangely enough you can get the same results using even a non-existent man...type in "/opt/poop/man something" followed by a tab and the same thing happens. I also tried writing a wrapper for man...if the wrapper is named "man" i get the error, but if it's renamed nothing happens.
I'm guessing it's a more system-wide thing relating to a missing whatis or maybe a missing man database. In any case, man is trying and failing to complete command names. If the tab completion just didn't work that would be fine, but this makes it appear broken.
EDIT: I think all instances of 'whatis' in the above paragraphs should be 'whereis'
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