From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.20pre6 i686; Nav) Description of problem: Since installing the man-1.5i2-0.6x package on several machines, I have received, every night without fail, these two errors from cron on each machine (from the makewhatis cron script): error: lstat() of directory /var/cache/man/X11R6/cat? failed: No such file or directory error: lstat() of directory /var/catman/X11R6/cat? failed: No such file or directory How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install man-1.5i2-0.6x. 2. Drink some coffee so you can stay up. 3. Read your email at 4:05am. Actual Results: There is mail from cron containing the errors above. Expected Results: No output. Additional info: Upgraded to man-1.5i2-0.6x from man-1.5i-0.6x. No part of man.config or any file or directory that seems remotely related to man has been touched. cron indicates this environment: X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/bash> X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin> X-Cron-Env: <MAILTO=root> X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/> X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root> output of man --path (from cron): /usr/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/kerberos/man:/usr/lib/perl5/man some directory listings: % ls -l /var/catman total 0 % ls -l /var/cache/man total 6 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5379 Jul 9 04:02 whatis I tried removing that 'whatis' file (apparently it's left over from the night before the upgrade -- why was it not removed?), but that did not alter the behavior. I love man-1.5i2 -- so far, looks like it's been a barrel of laughs.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 47784 ***