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Bars

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Registered: 2025-05-18

Posts: 13

Missing section in man pages

Yesterday I discovered that despite the fact that I have the packages installed and basically everything works fine section 1p is missing.
So when I type the command man read, a completely blank page appears in front of me.
The following message appears in the terminal:

 man: command exited with status 127: (cd /usr/share/man && /usr/lib/man-db/zsoelim) | (cd /usr/share/man && preconv -e UTF-8) | (cd /usr/share/man && tbl) | (cd /usr/share/man && neqn -Tutf8) | (cd /usr/share/man && nroff -mandoc -rLL=207n -rLT=207n -Tutf8) 

result of the command pacman -Qs man:

 local/man-db 2.13.1-1
    A utility for reading man pages
local/man-pages 6.17-1
    Linux man pages 

My question is: is the posix section important? And if not, how can I make man open another section first (for example, the c library function)?
because man 2 read works fine

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 74,483

Re: Missing section in man pages

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=312465

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killertofus

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Registered: 2025-02-10

Posts: 177

Re: Missing section in man pages

was fixed https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … e4cf574248

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