man-db-2.4.4 large man pages bug

Randy McMurchy lfs-user at mcmurchy.com
Wed Aug 8 00:42:40 MDT 2007


dragosi at web.de wrote these words on 08/08/07 01:12 CST:
> I've just finished building LFS-SVN20070731 and after some tests observed,
> that looking at larger man pages (for example, bash), would produce a
> grotty output error, if the man page read was prematurely aborted by
> pressing the 'q' key.
> 
> Some search on google and it seems that this is a known bug and the Debian
> testing archive has put out a fix for it.
> 
> Haven't recompiled yet, but what do you guys think of this?

I've noticed this same error:

randy at rmlinux: ~ > man bash
grotty:/usr/share/man/man1/bash.1:91511:fatal error: output error

-- 
Randy

rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.26] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3]
[GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux 2.6.14.3 i686]
01:41:00 up 6 days, 1:32, 1 user, load average: 0.17, 0.06, 0.17



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