Re: Problems installing man-db

Re: Problems installing man-db

[Angelo Graziosi]

Chris J. Breisch wrote:
 > 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.

I did this:

$ /usr/bin/mandb -c

and it printed:

/usr/bin/mandb: attenzione: $MANPATH già impostata, aggiungo in coda 
/etc/man_db.conf
Aggiornamento dell'indice della cache per il percorso 
"/usr/share/man/man1". Attendere...
Lavorazione delle pagine di manuale sotto a /usr/share/man...
/usr/bin/mandb: attenzione: /usr/share/man/man1/col.1.gz: analisi whatis 
per col(1) fallita
/usr/bin/mandb: attenzione: /usr/share/man/man1/csh.1 Ú un link 
simbolico spezzato
/usr/bin/mandb: attenzione: /usr/share/man/man1/d2u.1.gz: analisi whatis 
per d2u(1) fallita
/usr/bin/mandb: impossibile aprire /usr/share/man/man1/djvuxml.1: No 
such file or directory
/usr/bin/mandb: attenzione: /usr/share/man/man1/djvutoxml.1.gz: link 
simbolico o richiesta ROFF ".so" errato(a)
/usr/bin/mandb: impossibile aprire /usr/share/man/man1/djvuxml.1: No 
such file or directory
/usr/bin/mandb: attenzione: /usr/share/man/man1/djvuxmlparser.1.gz: link 
simbolico o richiesta ROFF ".so" errato(a)
/usr/bin/mandb: attenzione: /usr/share/man/man1/escp2topbm.1.gz: analisi 
whatis per escp2topbm(1) fallita
/usr/bin/mandb: attenzione: /usr/share/man/man1/mac2unix.1.gz: analisi 
whatis per mac2unix(1) fallita
/usr/bin/mandb: attenzione: /usr/share/man/man1/u2d.1.gz: analisi whatis 
per u2d(1) fallita
/usr/bin/mandb: attenzione: /usr/share/man/man1/unix2dos.1.gz: analisi 
whatis per unix2dos(1) fallita
/usr/bin/mandb: attenzione: /usr/share/man/man1/unix2mac.1.gz: analisi 
whatis per unix2mac(1) fallita
Aggiornamento dell'indice della cache per il percorso 
"/usr/share/man/man2". Attendere...
Aggiornamento dell'indice della cache per il percorso 
"/usr/share/man/man3". Attendere...
/usr/bin/mandb: attenzione: /usr/share/man/man3/CPAN.Debug.3pm.gz: 
analisi whatis per CPAN.Debug(3pm) fallita
/usr/bin/mandb: attenzione: 
/usr/share/man/man3/CPAN.HandleConfig.3pm.gz: analisi whatis per 
CPAN.HandleConfig(3pm) fallita
/usr/bin/mandb: attenzione: /usr/share/man/man3/CPAN.Queue.3pm.gz: 
analisi whatis per CPAN.Queue(3pm) fallita
/usr/bin/mandb: attenzione: /usr/share/man/man3/CPAN.Tarzip.3pm.gz: 
analisi whatis per CPAN.Tarzip(3pm) fallita
/usr/bin/mandb: attenzione: /usr/share/man/man3/libpm.3.gz: analisi 
whatis per libpm(3) fallita
/usr/bin/mandb: attenzione: /usr/share/man/man3/pcredemo.3.gz: analisi 
whatis per pcredemo(3) fallita
/usr/bin/mandb: attenzione: 
/usr/share/man/man3/TAP.Harness.Beyond.3pm.gz: analisi whatis per 
TAP.Harness.Beyond(3pm) fallita


and after 3 hours is still there... May we say it is hanging? or, 
really, the command you suggested take all this time and more?


Thanks,
  Angelo.

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Re: Problems installing man-db

[Shaddy Baddah]

Hi,

On 19/06/14 22:44, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> Chris J. Breisch wrote:
>  > 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.
>
> I did this:
>
> $ /usr/bin/mandb -c
>
> and it printed:
>
<snip/>

>
> and after 3 hours is still there... May we say it is hanging? or,
> really, the command you suggested take all this time and more?

I had a Cygwin install/update hang on man-db install, waiting on this
command. I had to kill the install. On the subsequent install, I
selected Reinstall, and it installed smoothly.

Sounds like there is a little bit of ironing out needed for the new
package.

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Re: Problems installing man-db

[Chris J. Breisch]

Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> Chris J. Breisch wrote:
>  > 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.
>
> I did this:
>
> $ /usr/bin/mandb -c
>
> and it printed:
>
> /usr/bin/mandb: attenzione: $MANPATH già impostata, aggiungo in coda
> /etc/man_db.conf
> Aggiornamento dell'indice della cache per il percorso
> "/usr/share/man/man1". Attendere...
> Lavorazione delle pagine di manuale sotto a /usr/share/man...
> /usr/bin/mandb: attenzione: /usr/share/man/man1/col.1.gz: analisi whatis
> per col(1) fallita
> /usr/bin/mandb: attenzione: /usr/share/man/man1/csh.1 Ú un link
> simbolico spezzato
> /usr/bin/mandb: attenzione: /usr/share/man/man1/d2u.1.gz: analisi whatis
> per d2u(1) fallita
> /usr/bin/mandb: impossibile aprire /usr/share/man/man1/djvuxml.1: No
> such file or directory
> /usr/bin/mandb: attenzione: /usr/share/man/man1/djvutoxml.1.gz: link
> simbolico o richiesta ROFF ".so" errato(a)
> /usr/bin/mandb: impossibile aprire /usr/share/man/man1/djvuxml.1: No
> such file or directory
> /usr/bin/mandb: attenzione: /usr/share/man/man1/djvuxmlparser.1.gz: link
> simbolico o richiesta ROFF ".so" errato(a)
> /usr/bin/mandb: attenzione: /usr/share/man/man1/escp2topbm.1.gz: analisi
> whatis per escp2topbm(1) fallita
> /usr/bin/mandb: attenzione: /usr/share/man/man1/mac2unix.1.gz: analisi
> whatis per mac2unix(1) fallita
> /usr/bin/mandb: attenzione: /usr/share/man/man1/u2d.1.gz: analisi whatis
> per u2d(1) fallita
> /usr/bin/mandb: attenzione: /usr/share/man/man1/unix2dos.1.gz: analisi
> whatis per unix2dos(1) fallita
> /usr/bin/mandb: attenzione: /usr/share/man/man1/unix2mac.1.gz: analisi
> whatis per unix2mac(1) fallita
> Aggiornamento dell'indice della cache per il percorso
> "/usr/share/man/man2". Attendere...
> Aggiornamento dell'indice della cache per il percorso
> "/usr/share/man/man3". Attendere...
> /usr/bin/mandb: attenzione: /usr/share/man/man3/CPAN.Debug.3pm.gz:
> analisi whatis per CPAN.Debug(3pm) fallita
> /usr/bin/mandb: attenzione:
> /usr/share/man/man3/CPAN.HandleConfig.3pm.gz: analisi whatis per
> CPAN.HandleConfig(3pm) fallita
> /usr/bin/mandb: attenzione: /usr/share/man/man3/CPAN.Queue.3pm.gz:
> analisi whatis per CPAN.Queue(3pm) fallita
> /usr/bin/mandb: attenzione: /usr/share/man/man3/CPAN.Tarzip.3pm.gz:
> analisi whatis per CPAN.Tarzip(3pm) fallita
> /usr/bin/mandb: attenzione: /usr/share/man/man3/libpm.3.gz: analisi
> whatis per libpm(3) fallita
> /usr/bin/mandb: attenzione: /usr/share/man/man3/pcredemo.3.gz: analisi
> whatis per pcredemo(3) fallita
> /usr/bin/mandb: attenzione:
> /usr/share/man/man3/TAP.Harness.Beyond.3pm.gz: analisi whatis per
> TAP.Harness.Beyond(3pm) fallita
>
>
> and after 3 hours is still there... May we say it is hanging? or,
> really, the command you suggested take all this time and more?
>
>

It takes a while, but it shouldn't take that long. Could you attach a 
cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out as described here 
(https://cygwin.com/problems.html) please?

My guess at this point is that you have a package installed that for 
whatever reason is confusing mandb.

I apologize for the difficulties. Building the database does quite a 
bit, but that part of mandb is generally pretty stable.

strace doesn't appear to like mandb -c either, or I'd suggest that.

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Re: Problems installing man-db

[Jon Bailey]

For what it's worth, I also ran into the problem with the Cygwin setup
updater hanging during the man-db update.

I'm on Win8.1, using Cygwin 64-bit.

I didn't have GDB installed, so checked with Process Explorer, the mandb.exe
process was using CPU, but I didn't notice a particular file handle open.

The /var/log/setup.log.run.XXXX is at http://pastebin.com/pZyc2iWf

I've installed GDB, if there's any particular steps I can take to attach to
mandb and provide better information (stack traces / variable contents)
please let me know.

-jon


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Re: Problems installing man-db

[Achim Gratz]

Chris J. Breisch writes:
> Achim Gratz wrote:
>> Crashed the same way as the postinstall script.  However, "mandb -dc" ran
>> through and the postinstall script now finishes.
>>
> Odd. Ok, I'll do some digging into this and see what I can find. I can
> change the postinstall script to do a "mandb -dc" for now, I
> guess. The "-d" output goes to stderr, I see.

Based on the characteristics of the crash I'd say that there is a race
somewhere and the debug output serializes things enough for this not to
become a problem.  It didn't even appreciably slow down the creation of
the database from what I could tell.  NB: I was testing on a quad-core
w/ SSD, but the mandatory virus scanner inserts itself on each file
operation of course.


Regards,
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Re: Problems installing man-db

[Chris J. Breisch]

Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> Achim Gratz wrote:
>> However, "mandb -dc" ran
>> through
>
> This fixed my problem... :-)
>
Awesome.

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Re: Problems installing man-db

[Chris J. Breisch]

Achim Gratz wrote:
> Achim Gratz<Stromeko<at>  NexGo.DE>  writes:
>> Running "mandb -c" again...
>
> Crashed the same way as the postinstall script.  However, "mandb -dc" ran
> through and the postinstall script now finishes.
>
>
Odd. Ok, I'll do some digging into this and see what I can find. I can 
change the postinstall script to do a "mandb -dc" for now, I guess. The 
"-d" output goes to stderr, I see.


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Re: Problems installing man-db

[Angelo Graziosi]

Achim Gratz wrote:
> However, "mandb -dc" ran
> through

This fixed my problem... :-)

Thank you!

Ciao,
  Angelo.

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Re: Problems installing man-db

[Achim Gratz]

Achim Gratz <Stromeko <at> NexGo.DE> writes:
> Running "mandb -c" again...

Crashed the same way as the postinstall script.  However, "mandb -dc" ran
through and the postinstall script now finishes.


Regards,
Achim.


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Re: Problems installing man-db

[Achim Gratz]

Chris J. Breisch <chris.ml <at> breisch.org> writes:
> 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.

The install worked OK (but took some time) on 32bit.  On 64bit I get these
errors:

[from install via setup.exe]
/usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/PDL.Config.3pm.gz: whatis parse
for PDL.Config(3pm) failed
/usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/PDL.Doc.Config.3pm.gz: whatis
parse for PDL.Doc.Config(3pm) failed
/etc/postinstall/man-db.sh: line 12: 30760 Segmentation fault      (core
dumped) /usr/bin/mandb -c

[running it again manually]
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/Font.TTF.DSIG.3pm.gz: whatis parse for
Font.TTF.DSIG(3pm) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/Font.TTF.Glat.3pm.gz: whatis parse for
Font.TTF.Glat(3pm) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/Font.TTF.Win32.3pm.gz: whatis parse for
Font.TTF.Win32(3pm) failed
assertion "mbsinit (&ps)" failed: file
"/home/chris.breisch/md/man-db-2.6.7-1/src/man-db-2.6.7/gnulib/lib/fnmatch.c",
line 291, function: gnu_fnmatch
Abort (core dumped)

The second abort happened earlier than the first.


Running "mandb -c" again...


Regards,
Achim.



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Re: Problems installing man-db

[Angelo Graziosi]

Shaddy Baddah wrote:
> I had a Cygwin install/update hang on man-db install, waiting on this
> command. I had to kill the install. On the subsequent install, I
> selected Reinstall, and it installed smoothly.

I tried this, but it didn't work for me... :(

The script /et/postinstall/man-db.sh still doesn't acquire the "done" 
label..

Ciao,
Angelo.

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Re: 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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Problems installing man-db

[Angelo Graziosi]

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?

Thanks,
  Angelo.

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