Bug#381545: yelp: searches for obsolete manpages paths

Jerome Warnier jwarnier at beeznest.net
Wed Oct 11 13:51:15 CEST 2006


Le samedi 05 août 2006 à 17:44 +0200, Loïc Minier a écrit :
> 
>         Hi,
> 
> On Sat, Aug 05, 2006, Jerome Warnier wrote:
> > Yelp spits out the following errors on startup:
> > """
> > (yelp:8670): Yelp-WARNING **: Unable to stat dir: "/usr/X11R6/man/man7"
> > (yelp:8670): Yelp-WARNING **: Unable to stat dir: "/usr/X11R6/man/man5"
> 
>  I don't have these warnings.  I suspect these are caused by dangling
>  symlinks, could you please confirm this by running "strace -e
>  trace=file -f yelp" to trace file accesses and find out which packages
>  ships the symlinks?

It was the cache, in ~/.gnome2/yelp.d/manindex.xml, which was
«corrupted». Deleting this file solved the problem.
You can close this bug, thanks.

>    Bye,
-- 
Jérôme Warnier
FLOSS Consultant
http://beeznest.net






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