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Bug 439876

Summary: sys-apps/man-db-2.6.3 - mandb: warning: cannot create catdir /var/cache/man
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Sergey S. Starikoff <Ikonta>
Component: [OLD] Core systemAssignee: Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---

Description Sergey S. Starikoff 2012-10-27 13:30:54 UTC 
Trying to use classic unix utility apropos I've find that there is no database.
Trybig to recreate it I've find the following issue:

# mandb -c
Processing manual pages under /usr/share/man...
mandb: warning: cannot create catdir /var/cache/man
mandb: can't create index cache /var/cache/man/19627: No such file or directory
mandb: can't update index cache /var/cache/man/19627: No such file or directory
done.
# mkdir /var/cache/man
# mandb -c
Processing manual pages under /usr/share/man...
mandb: warning: cannot create catdir /var/cache/man/cat1
mandb: warning: cannot create catdir /var/cache/man/cat2
mandb: warning: cannot create catdir /var/cache/man/cat3
...
mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/ne_buffer_clear.3: No such file or directory
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/ne_buffer_grow.3.bz2: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request
Updating index cache for path `/usr/share/man/man3p'. Wait...done.
Checking for stray cats under /usr/share/man...
Checking for stray cats under /var/cache/man...
Processing manual pages under /usr/share/man/ca...
mandb: warning: cannot create catdir /var/cache/man/ca
mandb: can't create index cache /var/cache/man/ca/19630: No such file or directory
mandb: can't update index cache /var/cache/man/ca/19630: No such file or directory
done.
...
(the following child directories exites utility with the same error, to my mind it should filter them using LINGUAS variable value)

Using sys-apps/man also seems to mishandle whatis database.
Normally portage should automatically update it after each installation/uninstallation of packages, containing manual pages.

P.S.
$ emerge --info
Portage 2.1.11.9 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.5.4, glibc-2.15-r3, 3.4.9-gentoo x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-3.4.9-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i5_CPU_661_@_3.33GHz-with-gentoo-2.1
Timestamp of tree: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 13:15:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:          4.2_p37
dev-java/java-config:     2.1.11-r3
dev-lang/python:          2.7.3-r2, 3.2.3
dev-util/cmake:           2.8.9
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.27.1
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.1-r1
sys-apps/openrc:          0.9.8.4
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.5
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13, 2.68
sys-devel/automake:       1.11.6
sys-devel/binutils:       2.22-r1
sys-devel/gcc:            4.5.4
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.7.3
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4-r1
sys-devel/make:           3.82-r3
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.4-r2 (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.15-r3
Repositories:

gentoo
    location: /usr/portage
    sync: rsync://mirror.yandex.ru/gentoo-portage/
    priority: -1000

rion
    location: /var/lib/layman/rion
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 0

zugaina
    location: /var/lib/layman/zugaina
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 1

local
    location: /usr/local/portage
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 2

ABI="amd64"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
...
(skipped due to size limitation)
Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2012-10-28 10:40:12 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 289884 ***