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Old 06-18-2007
Man page search issue

I have an issue with my man page configuration.

I can able to see man pages for 1st section. But for not the rest of the sections.

But If it give section number, man page is working properly

Following are the details

echo $MANPATH
/usr/share/man/%L:/usr/share/man:/usr/contrib/man/%L:/usr/contrib/man:/usr/local/man/%L:/usr/local/man

man ls - working

man terminfo
gdbm fatal: read error

man 5 terminfo
Reformatting terminfo(5), please wait...

working fine.

Please help me in this regard
# 2  
Old 06-18-2007
Any help on this man page search issue?
# 3  
Old 06-18-2007
Hi,
Did this give you any error code ?

Thanks
Nagarajan Ganesan
# 4  
Old 06-18-2007
I get only the following error

gdbm fatal: read error
# 5  
Old 06-18-2007
May be that man page is corrupted.

As rest are working.
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