[ug-bosug] man page browser

Tue Apr 3 05:12:28 PDT 2007

Dear Venky and Shivakumar,

Thank you for the directions.

I followed the steps suggested and before I outline what I have found, let
me answer some of Shivakumar's questions.

1. The machine:  It is a Sun Fire X 2200 M2 server with Solaris 10.

Set up, for a start, as a standalone, directly connected to a monitor,
connected to the Internet, no local network or peers, one user, root,
default password, no trusted solaris extensions. All root rights and
privileges as came with the default installation.

2. The browser is what comes by default, the one in the Java Desktop
environment.

3. There appear to be two email clients, i) one that is accessed from the
Launch Menu, email and calender, and ii ) another launched from the
webbrowser's quick launch tool bar in the icon tool bar seen at the bottom
left corner of the browser.

4. I am not sure if the tar ball extract caused the problem or something
else.

5. Data at risk are about 10 MB of mail files in one email client ( email
and calender on the launch menu ) and 8000 messages downloaded from Gmail in
the browser email client. There are about 5 - 10 star office documents /
presentations, a few system report and install check files.

6. Other programs installed are  Sun Studio 11, Sun Java Studio Creator,
Java Studio Enterprise 8, Net Beans 5.0 and Star Office.

The problems as noticed:

a) Webbrowser does not launch. On mouse click on the Launch Menu icon, or
from the desktop applications menu, the watch icon shows up to give the
appearence of the browser launching, but the icon disappears, browser is not
launched. No error messages.

b) The email client inbuilt into the browser is can't be launched becuase
the browser can't be launched. This is the client that contains over 8000
gmail messages, I don't know how to locate the store folder.  Also stored in
the evloution / local folder ? I don't think so.

c) the main email client ( email and calender ) worked fine, but after and
fsck, the inbox became corrupt ? it said "error while opening folder file
///evolution/local/ Inbox summary and folder mismatch, even after a Syn

General Error messages on boot :  ( some even before this problems occurred
) :
Consconfig_prepare_dev Can't push streams module "usbms" error 22

IPV4 DHCP interface bge0 ...  ( this message appeared when I booted with the
modem off )

Unknown console log in: Syslogd: line 24 waring: loghost could not be
resolved.

Error message when Java Desktop is loading:  Could not look up Internet
address for Unknown. This will prevent GNOME from operating correctly. It
may be possible to correct the problem by adding unknown to the file
/etc/hosts

Probable cause of the browser problem:

http://tkman.sourceforge.net/ pointed to a the tkman download page. I
clicked on the tkman 2.2 link , which led to another page that said polyglot
man 3.2 is also required. I downloaded both the tar files, it went to the /
(root ?) directory and in Java Desktop I went to the CDE environment, right
clicked on the Tar files and from the menu chose "Archive Unpack". the
unpacking happened with a pop up terminal screen, the files were seen
flashing, and in the end the quit command or close command did not close the
terminal screen, I closed the terminal screen from the Terminal menu bar.

Steps followed following the mail messages from Venky and Shivakumar:

Typed ~/.mozilla in the Terminal  It said permission denied
Typed mv ~/.mozilla.bkp It said -mv insufficient arguments
Typed /usr/sfw/lib/mozilla  It said permission denied

Ran fsck

It ran phases 1 though 5.
It said corrected bad CG summary ( I dont remember this part )
Corrected Sumamary for CG 747
File System may still be inconsistent
237862 files
7167038 used
232680951 free
246583 fragments
29054296 blocks
0.1% fragmentation
File System ws modified
File System is bad
Please rerun fsck
Reboot now

I did not reboot immediately, ran fsck - m
/dev/dsj/c1d0s0 is currently mounted R/W
/dev/dsk/c1d0s0: Unexpected inconsistency; Run fsck manually

Ran fsck -n
23782 files
7167038 used
232680951 free
246583 fragments
29054296 blocks
0.1% fragmentation

I typed reboot and on reboot there were error messages pertaining to network
and also this
(mispelt) a**/mmt/su**pdx default failed. Repeated attempts failed.
Transferred to maintanence.
SVC.startd [7] failed to abandon contract 46. Permission denied.

The system booted, the Java Desktop came up. It is then that I noticed that
the inbox of the "email and calender" client also became corrupt wtih the
error message "error while opening folder file ///evolution/local/ Inbox
summary and folder mismatch, even after a Syn.

This is the most important data in the system. I need to save this. If I
have to renistall, is there a way of preseving the data, is there some kind
of a "repair" or "install missing componets" option ?

Sivasubramanian.

On 4/3/07, Venky <venky.tv at gmail.com> wrote:
>
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>
> On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 11:29:42AM +0530, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy wrote:
> > Dear Venky,
> >
> > Thank you for the solution. I will try this command and will ask for
> more
> > help if required.
> >
> > Thank you.
> > Sivasubramanian.
> >
> > On 4/3/07, Venky <venkytv at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >Looks like root's home directory has been overwritten.  This is
> > >one of the many reasons why it is very dangerous to log in and
> > >work as root.  Running your email client inside the root account
> > >is especially dangerous.
> > >
> > >Funny that a tarball extract should do this, however.  You could
> > >run a find in the home directory and see what files are left:
> > >
> > >cd && find . -print
> > >
> > >Unless things are seriously messed up and files other than those
> > >in the root directory have been messed up, you might not need to
> > >reinstall the OS.
> > >
> > >Venky.
> > >
> > >
> > >On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 01:25:32AM +0530, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
> wrote:
> > >> hello
> > >>
> > >> I followed the link to tkman.sourceforge.net and it pointed to two
> file
> > >> download links, I downloaded the files, and in the process of
> extracting
> > >the
> > >> files, something must have happened, my browser completely failed the
> > >next
> > >> time I logged in. I am not sure if it is because of the tkman
> download.
> > >I
> > >> tried to launch my browser from Java Desktop, from CDE, the browser
> did
> > >not
> > >> launch. There was an indication of any error message either... All
> this
> > >when
> > >> logged in as root.
> > >>
> > >> Within the 1.7 browser there is an email client, I have downloaded a
> lot
> > >> messages and wonder what happened to the email file folder.
> > >>
> > >> Should I reinstall Solaris 10 ? Is there are way of repairing the
> > >browser
> > >> without going through the reinstallation routine ? If I should
> reinstall
> > >the
> > >> entire O/S is there a way of reninstalling without damaging the
> existing
> > >> files and the partition / slicing structure ?
> > >>
> > >> Thank you.
> > >> Sivasubramanian.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On 4/2/07, Binu Jose Philip <binu.j.philip at sun.com> wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> >G N S <shivakumar.gn at gmail.com> writes:
> > >> >
> > >> >> Hi,
> > >> >>
> > >> >>
> > >> >> On 3/30/07, Sriram Popuri <sgpopuri at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> >>
> > >> >>           Recently someone was asking me about a man page browser.
> > >> >>      Found this interesting. Gives man pages of many OSes.
> > >> >>
> > >> >>      http://modman.unixdev.net/
> > >> >>
> > >> >>      But I guess this searches only the synopsis like apropos.
> > >> >>
> > >> >>      Anything on similar lines or better?
> > >> >
> > >> >If you use [X]emacs then "woman" can do the job. It does not need
> > >> >an external formatter and does name completion. No apropos search.
> > >> >But you get all editing bells and whistles on the man page also.
> > >> >
> > >> >Yes, not useful without the emacs.
> > >> >
> > >> >cheers
> > >> >Binu
> > >> >
> > >> >> tkman ( http://tkman.sourceforge.net ) does a decent job (tk based
> > >GUI
> > >> >manpage browser on the system).
> > >> >> Not exactly like the one above. This offers lot more functionality
> > >than
> > >> >man command.
> > >> >> For those who find man command incovenient to browser through and
> > >search
> > >> >different commands, tkman might be
> > >> >> useful.
> > >> >> regards
> > >> >> ~Shiv
> > >> >>
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