Incomplete texdoc cache file

[solonovamax]

I'm having an issue with an incomplete texdoc file:

$ texdoc texdoc
/home/solonovamax/.texlive/texmf-var/texdoc/cache-tlpdb.lua:7397: unfinished string near '"details'

Here is the contents of the last two lines of that file:

  ["latex/xcolor/xcolor2.pdf"] = {["details"] = "Examples of usage with pstricks", },
  ["latex/xcookybooky/README"] = {["details

so, the file here is just broken. I believe that this may perhaps have been caused by me running out of disk space, so not an issue with texdoc.

However, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to regenerate that file. It would be nice if texdoc automatically regenerated the file if it cannot parse it.

[wtsnjp]

I cannot for the life of me figure out how to regenerate that file.

Texdoc will generate the cache file when it can't find a cache. So, you can remove cache-tlpdb.lua in your texmf-var and then it should work out (you have to prepare enough disk space, of course).

It would be nice if texdoc automatically regenerated the file if it cannot parse it.

Indeed. I'll look into if we can change the behavior of Texdoc.