Mysterious message

Kalev Lember kalevlember at gmail.com
Sat Jul 16 16:02:01 UTC 2011


On 07/16/2011 09:10 AM, Anne Wilson wrote:
> /etc/cron.daily/man-db.cron:
> 
> gzip: /usr/share/man/man1/shutter.1.gz: not in gzip format
> gzip: /usr/share/man/man1/shutter.1.gz: not in gzip format
> 
> Should I delete shutter.1.gz?  What is it - malformed gzip or something else?

Man pages in Fedora are all supposed to be gzip-compressed, but for some
reason this one is uncompressed, even though it has .gz extension. That
confuses gzip.

It's a packaging bug. File a bug against shutter:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fedora&component=shutter


Hope this helps,
Kalev


More information about the kde mailing list