The symptom I see on Ubuntu 18.04 is running
$ man -H man
and getting
man: command exited with status 3: (cd /tmp/hman6RgU0i &&
/usr/lib/man-db/zsoelim) | (cd /tmp/hman6RgU0i && /usr/lib/man-db/manconv -f
UTF-8:ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8//IGNORE) | (cd /
tmp/hman6RgU0i && preconv -e UTF-8) | (cd
oops sorry, forgot all of this:
OS: GNU/Linux Debian 9.6 (x86-64);
Cinnamon desktop: 3.2.7;
Linux Kernel: 4.9.0-8-amd64;
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo P8800;
Graphics Card: AMD/ATI RV710/M92 Mobility Radeon HD 4530/4570/545v
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Hi. Affects me too. Gets started ok (see listing below).
Here are some more details:
1) man 8 catman says:
"FILES
...
/var/catman/index.(bt|db|dir|pag)
An alternate or FSSTND compliant global index database
This bug affects me:
$ man man
man: command exited with status 3: /usr/lib/man-db/zsoelim |
/usr/lib/man-db/manconv -f UTF-8:ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8//IGNORE | preconv -e UTF-8
| tbl | nroff -mandoc -rLL=225n -rLT=225n -Tutf8
$
I think its because I uninstalled all manpages before to save disk
** Tags added: trusty
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man command failed with exit status 3
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** Changed in: man-db (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided = High
** Also affects: man-db
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
man
Filed a bug report under the Linux Mint distribution as well. Also added
bug to package man-db
The lauchpad URL for the Linux Mint bug report is :
https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/1443604
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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: man-db (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Confirmed
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Title:
man
Same problem here :
man: command exited with status 127: /usr/bin/zsoelim | /usr/lib/man-db/manconv
-f UTF-8:ISO-8859-1 -t ANSI_X3.4-1968//IGNORE | tbl | nroff -mandoc -Tascii |
iconv -c -f ANSI_X3.4-1968 -t UTF-8//TRANSLIT | gzip -c7
catman: man command failed with exit status 3
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