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mlsfit138
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 Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2004 1:17 am Post subject: Strange man problem |
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When I run "man emerge" as a user, (but not as root) I get this error: | Code: |
man emerge
rm: remove write-protected regular empty file `/var/cache/man/cat1/emerge.1.bz2
? q
Formatting page, please wait...
sh: line 1: /var/cache/man/cat1/emerge.1.bz2: Permission denied
Error executing formatting or display command.
System command (cd /usr/share/man && (echo ".pl 1100i"; /bin/gunzip -c '/usr/sh
re/man/man1/emerge.1.gz'; echo; echo ".pl \n(nlu+10") | /usr/bin/gtbl | /usr/bi
/nroff -Tlatin1 -c -mandoc | /bin/bzip2 > /var/cache/man/cat1/emerge.1.bz2) exi
ed with status 1.
rm: remove write-protected regular empty file `/var/cache/man/cat1/emerge.1.bz2
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bzip2: Compressed file ends unexpectedly;
perhaps it is corrupted? *Possible* reason follows.
bzip2: Success
Input file = /var/cache/man/cat1/emerge.1.bz2, output file = (stdout)
It is possible that the compressed file(s) have become corrupted.
You can use the -tvv option to test integrity of such files.
You can use the `bzip2recover' program to attempt to recover
data from undamaged sections of corrupted files.
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This happened to me a long time ago under mandrake, but I can't remember what the problem was, and how or if I resolved it.
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ectospasm
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| Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2004 1:25 am Post subject: |
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It looks like your emerge man page has been corrupted. Does this happen with any man page? Or just the one for emerge? I would suggest testing other man pages out first, to see if the problem exists. You also might want to try info, like this:
See if that generates an error too. You just gotta narrow it down: either man is broken, or the particular man page is corrupt.
Incidentally, I just tried "man emerge" and got the same problem. Running "info emerge" worked fine. I then tried "man emerge" as root, and got no problem. After that, "man emerge" works fine as a regular user...
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plasmagunman
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| Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2004 1:27 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | sh: line 1: /var/cache/man/cat1/emerge.1.bz2: Permission denied |
i had this error, too, and solved it by adding my user to the group "man".
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mlsfit138
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| Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2004 1:40 am Post subject: |
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thanks for the prompt response guys! Info worked fine, as well as any other man page I could think of. Man emerge worked fine as root too, just not as a user. I thought that maybe since I had run "man emerge" as root, that it would clear up some cache problem, so I could get it as a user again, and that didn't work.
finally the problem went away. No Idea why, I ran the command several times as both root and user, but this time the problem just went away. too strange... man.
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