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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!hamblin.math.byu.edu!news.byu.edu!cwis.isu.edu!u.cc.utah.edu!cs.weber.edu!terry From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: LOST MANPAGES due to FULL FILESYSTEM need help! Date: 22 Dec 1993 04:40:22 GMT Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT Lines: 22 Message-ID: <2f8j3m$f5q@u.cc.utah.edu> References: <2ermpb$rqd@news.u.washington.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.weber.edu Keywords: Manpages In article <2ermpb$rqd@news.u.washington.edu> spaz@hardy.u.washington.edu (John Utz) writes: > I went to look at my gdb manpage today and since it had not been >compiled as of yet, I got a "Write Failed: Filesystem full message" and my gdb > manpage seems to have departed this mortal coil; leaving only a filetable > entry of size 0 in my cat1 directory ( i assume that this is where it was living in it's pre-compiled, embryonic state ). Nope! This is not where it lived in it's precompiled life; it lived in the man1 directory... and still does (if you ran out of disk the same way I did). Delete the cat1 image of the file and the man page should come back (the man page "went away" because man gives precedence to the catman pages). There is a real bug that causes this behaviour (and you should report it!) in that the run-out-of-disk-space-error should have resulted in the cat1 page for gdb being deleted as "not created". Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.