NetBSD Problem Report #46642

From lloyd@thallid.must-have-coffee.gen.nz  Sat Jun 30 22:11:26 2012
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Date: Sun,  1 Jul 2012 10:11:20 +1200 (NZST)
From: lloyd@must-have-coffee.gen.nz
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Subject: insufficient diagnostics from makemandb(8)
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>Number:         46642
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       When makemandb has an error, it doesn't say what the error is.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Jun 30 22:15:00 +0000 2012
>Last-Modified:  Sun Jul 01 05:40:08 +0000 2012
>Originator:     Lloyd Parkes
>Release:        NetBSD 6.0_BETA2
>Organization:
Must Have Coffee
>Environment:
System: NetBSD thallid.must-have-coffee.gen.nz 6.0_BETA2 NetBSD 6.0_BETA2 (XEN3PAE_DOMU) #0: Mon Jun 18 04:48:20 NZST 2012 lloyd@bob:/vol/scratch/build6/obj.i386/sys/arch/i386/compile/XEN3PAE_DOMU i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:

My daily output email message from cron contains the following text:
	Updating man page index:
	makemandb: Error in indexing /usr/X11R7/man/man3/Xv.3
	makemandb: Error in indexing /usr/X11R7/man/man3/XvSelectVideoNotify.3
	makemandb: Error in indexing /usr/X11R7/man/man3/XvFreeAdaptorInfo.3
	makemandb: Error in indexing /usr/X11R7/man/man3/XvFreeEncodingInfo.3
	...

Unfortunately makemandb won't tell me what is wrong, so it is not possible
to fix the problem.

>How-To-Repeat:

Run makemandb.

>Fix:
Unknown, except that the error reporting in makemandb needs to be improved
so that it is useful.

>Audit-Trail:
From: Abhinav Upadhyay <er.abhinav.upadhyay@gmail.com>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: gnats-admin@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/46642: insufficient diagnostics from makemandb(8)
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2012 11:09:50 +0530

 On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 3:45 AM,  <lloyd@must-have-coffee.gen.nz> wrote:
 >>Number:         46642
 >>Category:       bin
 >>Synopsis:       When makemandb has an error, it doesn't say what the error is.
 >>Confidential:   no
 >>Severity:       serious
 >>Priority:       medium
 >>Responsible:    bin-bug-people
 >>State:          open
 >>Class:          sw-bug
 >>Submitter-Id:   net
 >>Arrival-Date:   Sat Jun 30 22:15:00 +0000 2012
 >>Originator:     Lloyd Parkes
 >>Release:        NetBSD 6.0_BETA2
 >>Organization:
 > Must Have Coffee
 >>Environment:
 > System: NetBSD thallid.must-have-coffee.gen.nz 6.0_BETA2 NetBSD 6.0_BETA2 (XEN3PAE_DOMU) #0: Mon Jun 18 04:48:20 NZST 2012 lloyd@bob:/vol/scratch/build6/obj.i386/sys/arch/i386/compile/XEN3PAE_DOMU i386
 > Architecture: i386
 > Machine: i386
 >>Description:
 >
 > My daily output email message from cron contains the following text:
 >         Updating man page index:
 >         makemandb: Error in indexing /usr/X11R7/man/man3/Xv.3
 >         makemandb: Error in indexing /usr/X11R7/man/man3/XvSelectVideoNotify.3
 >         makemandb: Error in indexing /usr/X11R7/man/man3/XvFreeAdaptorInfo.3
 >         makemandb: Error in indexing /usr/X11R7/man/man3/XvFreeEncodingInfo.3
 >         ...
 >

 I don't see those errors on my system.

 > Unfortunately makemandb won't tell me what is wrong, so it is not possible
 > to fix the problem.

 Sorry, I think you are right, makemandb should give more information
 in case of errors. I will send a patch to fix this. But _generally_
 the problem is with the NAME section of the man page. For example if
 there is an .Nd macro missing, the Name missing or something like
 that.

 Thanks
 Abhinav

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