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Kabir

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Registered: 2016-12-06

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mandb warning: nvmlDeviceGetNvLinkCapability bad symlink or ROFF

Hi,

since the past 2 days ive been seeing a few mandb warnings in the journal, im not sure what to attribute these to, other than it seems like something to do with nvidia and the installation of CUDA, because I started seeing these warnings around the same time I installed CUDA.

Jan 10 06:26:57 aries systemd[1]: Starting Update man-db cache...
Jan 10 06:26:57 aries mandb[10211]: Updating index cache for path `/usr/share/man/man7'. Wait...
Jan 10 06:26:57 aries mandb[10211]: Purging old database entries in /usr/share/man...
Jan 10 06:26:57 aries mandb[10211]: Processing manual pages under /usr/share/man...
Jan 10 06:26:58 aries mandb[10211]: Updating index cache for path `/usr/share/man/man1'. Wait...
Jan 10 06:26:58 aries mandb[10211]: Updating index cache for path `/usr/share/man/man5'. Wait...
Jan 10 06:26:58 aries mandb[10211]: Updating index cache for path `/usr/share/man/man3'. Wait...
Jan 10 06:26:59 aries mandb[10211]: /usr/bin/mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man3/NvLink.3: No such file or directory
Jan 10 06:26:59 aries mandb[10211]: /usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/nvmlDeviceGetNvLinkErrorCounter.3.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request
Jan 10 06:26:59 aries mandb[10211]: /usr/bin/mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man3/NvLink.3: No such file or directory
Jan 10 06:26:59 aries mandb[10211]: /usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/nvmlDeviceSetNvLinkUtilizationControl.3.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request
Jan 10 06:26:59 aries mandb[10211]: /usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/pcredemo.3.gz: whatis parse for pcredemo(3) failed
Jan 10 06:27:00 aries mandb[10211]: /usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/gnutls_x509_trust_list_add_system_trust.3.gz: whatis parse for gnutls_x509_trust_list_add_system_trust(3) failed
Jan 10 06:27:00 aries mandb[10211]: /usr/bin/mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man3/NvLink.3: No such file or directory
Jan 10 06:27:00 aries mandb[10211]: /usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/nvmlDeviceGetNvLinkRemotePciInfo.3.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request
Jan 10 06:27:00 aries mandb[10211]: /usr/bin/mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man3/NvLink.3: No such file or directory
Jan 10 06:27:00 aries mandb[10211]: /usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/nvmlDeviceFreezeNvLinkUtilizationCounter.3.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request
Jan 10 06:27:00 aries mandb[10211]: /usr/bin/mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man3/NvLink.3: No such file or directory
Jan 10 06:27:00 aries mandb[10211]: /usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/nvmlDeviceResetNvLinkUtilizationCounter.3.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request
Jan 10 06:27:00 aries mandb[10211]: /usr/bin/mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man3/NvLink.3: No such file or directory
Jan 10 06:27:00 aries mandb[10211]: /usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/nvmlDeviceGetNvLinkVersion.3.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request
Jan 10 06:27:00 aries mandb[10211]: /usr/bin/mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man3/NvLink.3: No such file or directory
Jan 10 06:27:00 aries mandb[10211]: /usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/nvmlDeviceResetNvLinkErrorCounters.3.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request
Jan 10 06:27:00 aries mandb[10211]: /usr/bin/mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man3/NvLink.3: No such file or directory
Jan 10 06:27:00 aries mandb[10211]: /usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/nvmlDeviceGetNvLinkState.3.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request
Jan 10 06:27:00 aries mandb[10211]: /usr/bin/mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man3/NvLink.3: No such file or directory
Jan 10 06:27:00 aries mandb[10211]: /usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/nvmlDeviceGetNvLinkUtilizationCounter.3.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request
Jan 10 06:27:01 aries mandb[10211]: /usr/bin/mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man3/NvLink.3: No such file or directory
Jan 10 06:27:01 aries mandb[10211]: /usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/nvmlDeviceGetNvLinkUtilizationControl.3.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request
Jan 10 06:27:01 aries mandb[10211]: /usr/bin/mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man3/NvLink.3: No such file or directory
Jan 10 06:27:01 aries mandb[10211]: /usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/nvmlDeviceGetNvLinkCapability.3.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request
Jan 10 06:27:01 aries mandb[10211]: /usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/pcre2demo.3.gz: whatis parse for pcre2demo(3) failed
Jan 10 06:27:01 aries mandb[10211]: /usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/fribidi_set_debug.3.gz: whatis parse for fribidi_set_debug(3) failed
Jan 10 06:27:01 aries mandb[10211]: /usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/fribidi_unicode_version.3.gz: whatis parse for fribidi_unicode_version(3) failed
Jan 10 06:27:01 aries mandb[10211]: /usr/bin/mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/fribidi_version_info.3.gz: whatis parse for fribidi_version_info(3) failed
Jan 10 06:27:01 aries mandb[10211]: done.
Jan 10 06:27:02 aries mandb[10211]: Checking for stray cats under /usr/share/man...
Jan 10 06:27:02 aries mandb[10211]: Checking for stray cats under /var/cache/man...
Jan 10 06:27:02 aries mandb[10211]: Purging old database entries in /usr/share/man/pl...
Jan 10 06:27:02 aries mandb[10211]: Processing manual pages under /usr/share/man/pl...
Jan 10 06:27:02 aries mandb[10211]: Purging old database entries in /usr/share/man/sv...
Jan 10 06:27:02 aries mandb[10211]: Processing manual pages under /usr/share/man/sv...
Jan 10 06:27:02 aries mandb[10211]: Purging old database entries in /usr/share/man/jp...
Jan 10 06:27:02 aries mandb[10211]: Processing manual pages under /usr/share/man/jp...
Jan 10 06:27:02 aries mandb[10211]: Purging old database entries in /usr/share/man/id...
Jan 10 06:27:02 aries mandb[10211]: Processing manual pages under /usr/share/man/id...

I havnt been able to find any information regarding these warnings other than it could be a broken symlink or a missing package? I'm just concerned about these warnings but dont know what to do to clear them off.
Please let me know if you need me to provide more logs / information.
Thanks for helping!

ondoho

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Registered: 2013-04-30

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Re: mandb warning: nvmlDeviceGetNvLinkCapability bad symlink or ROFF

i just got this after installing a package:

Updating index cache for path `/usr/share/man/man4'. Wait...
Purging old database entries in /usr/man...
Processing manual pages under /usr/man...
Purging old database entries in /usr/share/man...
Processing manual pages under /usr/share/man...
Updating index cache for path `/usr/share/man/man3'. Wait...
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/pcredemo.3.gz: whatis parse for pcredemo(3) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/fribidi_get_bidi_type_name.3.gz: whatis parse for fribidi_get_bidi_type_name(3) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/fribidi_get_bidi_types.3.gz: whatis parse for fribidi_get_bidi_types(3) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/fribidi_get_bracket.3.gz: whatis parse for fribidi_get_bracket(3) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/fribidi_get_bracket_types.3.gz: whatis parse for fribidi_get_bracket_types(3) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/fribidi_get_joining_type.3.gz: whatis parse for fribidi_get_joining_type(3) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/fribidi_get_joining_type_name.3.gz: whatis parse for fribidi_get_joining_type_name(3) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/fribidi_get_joining_types.3.gz: whatis parse for fribidi_get_joining_types(3) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/fribidi_get_mirror_char.3.gz: whatis parse for fribidi_get_mirror_char(3) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/fribidi_get_par_direction.3.gz: whatis parse for fribidi_get_par_direction(3) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/fribidi_log2vis_get_embedding_levels.3.gz: whatis parse for fribidi_log2vis_get_embedding_levels(3) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/fribidi_mirroring_status.3.gz: whatis parse for fribidi_mirroring_status(3) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/fribidi_remove_bidi_marks.3.gz: whatis parse for fribidi_remove_bidi_marks(3) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/fribidi_reorder_line.3.gz: whatis parse for fribidi_reorder_line(3) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/fribidi_reorder_nsm_status.3.gz: whatis parse for fribidi_reorder_nsm_status(3) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/fribidi_set_debug.3.gz: whatis parse for fribidi_set_debug(3) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/fribidi_set_mirroring.3.gz: whatis parse for fribidi_set_mirroring(3) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/fribidi_set_reorder_nsm.3.gz: whatis parse for fribidi_set_reorder_nsm(3) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/fribidi_shape.3.gz: whatis parse for fribidi_shape(3) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/fribidi_shape_arabic.3.gz: whatis parse for fribidi_shape_arabic(3) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/fribidi_shape_mirroring.3.gz: whatis parse for fribidi_shape_mirroring(3) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/common::sense.3pm.gz: whatis parse for common::sense(3pm) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/fribidi_charset_to_unicode.3.gz: whatis parse for fribidi_charset_to_unicode(3) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/fribidi_unicode_to_charset.3.gz: whatis parse for fribidi_unicode_to_charset(3) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/fribidi_parse_charset.3.gz: whatis parse for fribidi_parse_charset(3) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/fribidi_debug_status.3.gz: whatis parse for fribidi_debug_status(3) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/fribidi_get_bidi_type.3.gz: whatis parse for fribidi_get_bidi_type(3) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/gnutls_x509_trust_list_add_system_trust.3.gz: whatis parse for gnutls_x509_trust_list_add_system_trust(3) failed
mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man3/shmem_short_xor_all.3: No such file or directory
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/shmem_longlong_xor_to_all.3.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request
mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man3/shmem_short_xor_all.3: No such file or directory
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/shmem_int_xor_to_all.3.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request
mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man3/shmem_short_xor_all.3: No such file or directory
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/shmem_long_xor_to_all.3.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request
mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man3/MPI_Win_attach: No such file or directory
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/MPI_Win_detach.3.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/IO::Socket::SSL::Utils.3pm*: competing extensions
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/Net::SSLeay::Handle.3pm*: competing extensions
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/IO::Socket::SSL::Intercept.3pm*: competing extensions
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/IO::Socket::SSL::PublicSuffix.3pm*: competing extensions
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/LWP::Protocol::https.3pm*: competing extensions
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/IO::Socket::SSL.3pm*: competing extensions
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/pcre2demo.3.gz: whatis parse for pcre2demo(3) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/Net::SSLeay.3pm*: competing extensions
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/Games::FrozenBubble::Stuff.3pm.gz: whatis parse for Games::FrozenBubble::Stuff(3pm) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/Games::FrozenBubble::Net.3pm.gz: whatis parse for Games::FrozenBubble::Net(3pm) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/Games::FrozenBubble::MDKCommon.3pm.gz: whatis parse for Games::FrozenBubble::MDKCommon(3pm) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/Games::FrozenBubble::LevelEditor.3pm.gz: whatis parse for Games::FrozenBubble::LevelEditor(3pm) failed
Updating index cache for path `/usr/share/man/man8'. Wait...
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man8/downgrade.8.gz: whatis parse for downgrade(8) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man8/numastat.8.gz: whatis parse for numastat(8) failed
Updating index cache for path `/usr/share/man/man1'. Wait...
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/amulegui.1.gz: whatis parse for amulegui(1) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/mjpegtools.1.gz: whatis parse for mjpegtools(1) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/tint2.1*: competing extensions
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/inkscape.el.1.gz: whatis parse for inkscape.el(1) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/inkscape.sk.1.gz: whatis parse for inkscape.sk(1) failed
error: command failed to execute correctly

but i get nothing with "journalctl -b |grep mandb".

everything still seems to work normally so far...

robg

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Re: mandb warning: nvmlDeviceGetNvLinkCapability bad symlink or ROFF

Well, are these

mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/shmem_int_xor_to_all.3.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request
mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man3/shmem_short_xor_all.3: No such file or directory

supposed to come from somewhere? Please post the entire pacman.log and the output of `pacman -Fl $package`, where $package is to be replaced with the installed package. Please provide also the output of `stat /usr/share/man/man3/shmem_int_xor_to_all.3.gz`.

ondoho

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Re: mandb warning: nvmlDeviceGetNvLinkCapability bad symlink or ROFF

running

sudo mandb

once manually fixed it.

Kabir

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Registered: 2016-12-06

Posts: 59

Re: mandb warning: nvmlDeviceGetNvLinkCapability bad symlink or ROFF

running

sudo mandb

once manually fixed it.

Hmm.. I havent been able to fix it even after running sudo mandb. The warnings dont show up if I manually run either of the following

sudo mandb
systemctl start man-db.service

The warnings appear only when the system automatically runs it at 00:00 hrs, because when I run in manually mandb does not run on the dir (in my case)

/usr/share/man/man3/NvLink.3