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Beini

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From: Finland

Registered: 2007-06-06

Posts: 78

[SOLVED]gdbm fatal: read error

Hello,

I get an error email from daily cron run with this content every day:

gdbm fatal: read error

I guess it's from mandb as running mandb manually I get this:

Purging old database entries in /usr/man...
gdbm fatal: read error

Only thing I found with google was running mandb with -csp flags, but that didn't help.

Any help? Anyone else having this? I thought to post on the forums first because it seemed weird that I would be the only one having this if it is a bug.

Last edited by Beini (2009-10-30 19:02:45)

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Beini

Member

From: Finland

Registered: 2007-06-06

Posts: 78

Re: [SOLVED]gdbm fatal: read error

Everytime I give up solving something on my own and post on the forums I manage to solve it on my own like 5 minutes later

I went through my old emails and noticed that the gdbm error messages started at the same time I hit a bug which filled my root partition with bogus data. So when there was no space left on partition the /var/cache/man somehow got corrupted.

Removing /var/cache/man and running /etc/cron.daily/mandb fixed it

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