Richard Kilgore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 10:02:13AM -0800, Anupam Kapoor wrote: >> hi all, >> >> i am having a strange problem displaying man page. when i try a man > >> page e.g. 'man ld' here is the output i get : >> >> ,---- >> | parth% man ld >> | fgets: No such file or directory >> | Error reading man page /usr/share/man/man1/ld.1.gz >> | No manual entry for ld >> | parth% >> `---- >> >> while other man commands e.g. 'man ls' works fine. >> >> any ideas on what might be wrong here ? > > Anupam, > ,---- | > What happens if you do: | > | > gunzip -c /usr/share/man/man1/ld.1.gz | /usr/bin/groff -Tascii -man - | /usr/bin/less -R | > | > hopefully, you get a more understandable error message. | > Also, is your environment variable MANPATH set to something | > weird? And does /etc/man.conf look ok? (specifically, search | > for "fgets", I would think). `---- the output of the above command produces no ouput for me :(. the file exists though !
,---- | parth% ls -l /usr/share/man/man1/ld.1.gz | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25 Dec 15 16:19 /usr/share/man/man1/ld.1.gz `---- so i tried 'gunzip -c /usr/share/man/man1/ld.1.gz' it produces no output !!! my MANPATH looks like this : ,---- | /usr/share/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.2/man:/usr/X11R6/man: | /opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.1/man:/usr/qt/3/doc/man `---- i looked at /etc/man.conf and i cannot notice anything strange there. if it would make it any easier, i can post the contents here. any ideas ? thank you for your reply. kind regards anupam > > - richard > > -- > Richard Kilgore > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
