[ Ulrich Spörlein wrote on Wed 26.Sep'12 at 19:02:58 +0200 ] > On Tue, 2012-09-25 at 12:58:01 +0100, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: > > Hi > > > > When I read 'certain' -- not all -- man pages zcat writes a small error to > > stderr when opening the man page; however, the man page does actually open. > > The message i get on the terminal is: > > > > zcat: error writing to output: Broken pipe > > zcat: /usr/local/man/man5/muttrc.5.gz: uncompress failed > > > > When closing the man page, another message is shown on stderr: > > > > grotty:<standard input> (<standard input>):54131:fatal error: output > > error > > > > > > Would anyone here know the possible cause and fix for this issue? > > Well, what is /usr/local/man/man5/muttrc.5.gz? > > ls -l /usr/local/man/man5/muttrc.5.gz > file /usr/local/man/man5/muttrc.5.gz > zcat /usr/local/man/man5/muttrc.5.gz | head -5 > xxd /usr/local/man/man5/muttrc.5.gz | head > > It looks like you simple have a garbled manpage, and the catpage is > displayed instead. > > Cheers > Uli
Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately, this is not the only man page it happens with; a number of pages show the same issue, usually with man pages that have been installed with ports. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
