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saciel

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From: Germany

Registered: 2006-07-30

Posts: 153

[SOLVED] "man" doesn't find the manpages anymore... what has happend?

I suppose the probleme first appeared after the latest upgrade of "man-pages".

When I'm regular user man returns "No manual entry for XXX" in most cases. Being root, all manpages are displayed as usual.

Here's what I tried so far:

I've checked some manpages from "/usr/man" directroy. On all manpages, no matter if the work for the regualr user, read-permission is enabled for everyone!
Checking the $MANPATH variable returns the same for root and users, namely:  "/usr/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/opt/java/jre/man:/opt/kde/man:/opt/qt/man"

I have no idea what else I could try to get them working properly again.

Last edited by saciel (2007-07-11 16:16:55)

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Cerebral

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From: Waterloo, ON, CA

Registered: 2005-04-08

Posts: 3,108

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Re: [SOLVED] "man" doesn't find the manpages anymore... what has happend?

what're the permissions on /usr/man/ and /usr/man/*?   ls -ld /usr/man /usr/man/*

saciel

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From: Germany

Registered: 2006-07-30

Posts: 153

Re: [SOLVED] "man" doesn't find the manpages anymore... what has happend?

There were indeed two directories that didn't feature 755, as they were supposed to be (man1 and man4). Everything I've checked so far is working again. Strange...

Last edited by saciel (2007-07-11 16:17:27)

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Cerebral

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From: Waterloo, ON, CA

Registered: 2005-04-08

Posts: 3,108

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Re: [SOLVED] "man" doesn't find the manpages anymore... what has happend?

probably due to the recent issue with pacman and overwriting dir permissions.
http://www.archlinux.org/news/334/

saciel

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From: Germany

Registered: 2006-07-30

Posts: 153

Re: [SOLVED] "man" doesn't find the manpages anymore... what has happend?

Maybe... I just had a look in my logfile, I in fact updated man-pages beteween the two latest pacman versions...

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fjodork

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Registered: 2008-01-10

Posts: 14

Re: [SOLVED] "man" doesn't find the manpages anymore... what has happend?

im having a similar issue. but in my case, man pages arent shown even if im root... i cant seem to find man pages for anything. this is a pretty new arch64 install, so i dont know if they worked on this install before.. if not, how can i install the needed manpages?

br fjodork

pressh

Developer/TU

From: Netherlands

Registered: 2005-08-14

Posts: 1,719

Re: [SOLVED] "man" doesn't find the manpages anymore... what has happend?

most likely your MANPATH is not set correctly due to the recent move of the manpages from /usr/man to /usr/share/man.
Adding 'unset MANPATH' to ~/.bashrc should resolve if for now if that is the case. If not post your MANPATH here.

shining

Pacman Developer

Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: [SOLVED] "man" doesn't find the manpages anymore... what has happend?

check if you have a /etc/profile.pacnew. If yes, update your /etc/profile .

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Zer0

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From: Windsor, ON, Canada

Registered: 2006-08-25

Posts: 299

Re: [SOLVED] "man" doesn't find the manpages anymore... what has happend?

Here is the repective lines from the newer /etc/profile,  check if you have them.  If not then update as said above

# Man is much better than us at figuring this out
unset MANPATH