FS#15068 - [texinfo] info: Cannot find node `Top'

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Sergey Guzenkov (Guzenkov) - Friday, 12 June 2009, 06:04 GMT
Last edited by Eric Belanger (Snowman) - Friday, 19 June 2009, 03:20 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Eric Belanger (Snowman)
Architecture i686
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
info: Cannot find node `Top'
whatever you try to look for.

When texinfo file is specified through -f works fine.

Setting export INFOPATH=/usr/share/info
does not help.

Additional info:
* package version(s) core/texinfo 4.13a-3
This task depends upon

Closed by  Eric Belanger (Snowman)
Friday, 19 June 2009, 03:20 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Sergey Guzenkov (Guzenkov) - Friday, 12 June 2009, 06:06 GMT
pacman -Sf texinfo
reinstalls, but does not solve the problem.
Comment by Alessandro Doro (adoroo) - Friday, 12 June 2009, 12:58 GMT
I think your dir file is corrupted (maybe because of some bad package).
Please make a backup of /usr/share/info/dir, then:

# rm /usr/share/info/dir
# for i in /usr/share/info/*; do install-info "$i" /usr/share/info/dir; done
Comment by Eric Belanger (Snowman) - Friday, 12 June 2009, 16:36 GMT
Alessandro is probably right. That error seem to be caused by a corrupted /usr/share/info/dir. Another way to fix it:
# rm /usr/share/info/dir
# pacman -S texinfo
Comment by Sergey Guzenkov (Guzenkov) - Friday, 19 June 2009, 02:04 GMT
Alessandro, thank you. I followed your instructions and now everything works.

The dir file was empty (had a size 0). Now it is 91148.
But while executing I got these errors:
install-info: warning: no info dir entry in `/usr/share/info/bc.info'
install-info: warning: no info dir entry in `/usr/share/info/gnutls-certificate-user-use-case.png'
install-info: warning: no info dir entry in `/usr/share/info/gnutls-client-server-use-case.png'
install-info: warning: no info dir entry in `/usr/share/info/gnutls-extensions_st.png'
install-info: warning: no info dir entry in `/usr/share/info/gnutls-handshake-sequence.png'
install-info: warning: no info dir entry in `/usr/share/info/gnutls-handshake-state.png'
install-info: warning: no info dir entry in `/usr/share/info/gnutls-internals.png'
install-info: warning: no info dir entry in `/usr/share/info/gnutls-layers.png'
install-info: warning: no info dir entry in `/usr/share/info/gnutls-logo.png'
install-info: warning: no info dir entry in `/usr/share/info/gnutls-mod_auth_st.png'
install-info: warning: no info dir entry in `/usr/share/info/gnutls-objects.png'
install-info: warning: no info dir entry in `/usr/share/info/gnutls-pgp.png'
install-info: warning: no info dir entry in `/usr/share/info/gnutls-x509.png'
install-info: warning: no info dir entry in `/usr/share/info/tora.info.gz'

Are they to do with the problems in respective packages?

#Eric, pacman -S did not help as is written in the first comment.

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