Man pages missing and non-existent terminal issue.

[David Diaz]

Hello All,
I am running HP-UX 11.00 on a V2250. While installing new software the /stand file system was filling up. I expanded it using ignite.
I received no errors to standard output so i went ahead and installed the software in question and took another make_tape_recovery backup.
All seemed ok until two days later when I needed to view a man page and it was gone. I went to the /usr/share/man directory and there was nothing there. I went ahead and installed the man pages from the core os disc. Now I have some of the man pages (man1.Z, man1m.Z, man4.Z and man5.Z) but when I try to access them I get the following error; "Reformatting entry. Wait... Non-existent terminal type"
Any input would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance for your responses.

[Steven E. Protter]

If the /usr filesystem was included in the Ignite backup it and all man pages should have been laid down the way they were before.

Two conclusions possible:

1) The stuff got deleted before the make_tape_recovery
2) Something went wrong with Ignite.

I've done the same thing you did with 11i and had not issues like this.

What you really want is a fix.

Copy the man pages in from another system.

cd /usr/share/man

tar cvf /tmp/man.tar *

copy the file over and tar xvf if.

Since there is no data there, you don't risk overylaying anything.

I would say two things:

1) I've never had this problem so my suggestion is just that un-tested.

2) I am not sure how catman and other man enhancement facilities are going to work under this scenario.

SEP

[Pete Randall]

David,

I wonder if something was missed during the creations of your make_tape_recovery backup - and therefore not restored. What is the syntax that you used to create the backup?


Pete

[David Diaz]

Steve: The copy over from another server brought all the man pages over but I still have the terminal problem. Thanks for the suggestion, I'm halfway home.

Pete: The syntax was "make_tape_recovery -p -v -x inc_entire=vg00".

[Garry Ferguson]

What's TERM set to?
Mine are all dtterm.
I notice man's output looks different for
different TERMs and vi doesn't work at all
if TERM is not a known one.

Garry