Truncated man page

[Steve]

On Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:54:24 -0000, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 08:30:45PM -0000, Steve wrote:
>> On one of my computers the man page for aptitude is truncated, only a
>> third or so is there. I’ve tried reinstalling aptitude but to no avail.
>> How do I get it back?  I’ve looked at a few other man pages and compared
>> them to an other machine and they appear intact.
>
> I'd suggest looking in /var/cache/man for the cached truncated version.
> Remove it, and when you next run man aptitude, it should regenerate a
> complete version.
>
Can’t find any cached files in there at all.

> I wonder how this happened.  Did you run out of disk space when you were
> trying to look at aptitude's man page?
>
No problem with disk space, 3g out of 6g on / and 4g out of 10g on /home.   
I ran dd > null on both drives to see if there are any read problems and  
nothing showed up.

-- 
Steve