* Dan McGee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 5/2/07, Eric Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Aaron Griffin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On 5/1/07, Dan McGee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 5/1/07, Eric Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I got pacman 3.03 from testing, but no manpage found? > > > > > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ man pacman > > > > > No manual entry for pacman > > > > > > > > > > anybody else have that problem? > > > > > > > > Check your permissions on the directory in /usr/man. You will probably > > > > see some that got messed up, its related to a bug in the coreutils > > > > package that has since been fixed. pacman 3.0.1 was the culprit as far > > > > as we can tell. You should be able to fix the permissions and access > > > > ALL manpages again (pacman is not the only one that is broken). > > > > > > According to cactus, 3.0.3-1 had the permission issue. I've thrown a > > > 3.0.3-2 package up there which was a simple rebuild with valid > > > permissions > > I just updated the system again and it pulled pacman 3.0.3-2 but I still > > have the same problem. > > what should the permissions be on /usr/man/ ? > > this is what I have > > > > drwxr-xr-x 53 root root 4.0K 2007-04-28 09:36 man/ > > > > isnt' read and execute enough to use man pages? > > Check the subdirectories of /usr/man, that is where the problems were > seen (man3, man8, etc.). > > -Dan
these are the subdirs: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K 2007-04-09 18:10 man0p/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 40K 2007-05-02 11:07 man1/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K 2007-04-09 18:10 man1p/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 8.0K 2007-04-22 11:42 man2/ drwx------ 2 root root 224K 2007-05-02 11:07 man3/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 28K 2007-04-09 18:10 man3p/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2007-04-23 02:21 man3x -> man3/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K 2007-04-22 11:42 man4/ drwx------ 2 root root 4.0K 2007-05-02 10:58 man5/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K 2007-04-22 11:42 man6/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K 2007-05-02 11:09 man7/ drwx------ 2 root root 12K 2007-05-02 11:09 man8/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K 2007-04-09 18:10 man9/ do I need to add read/execute for the ones that don't have it? - Eric > > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > [email protected] > http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch -- Eric Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
