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I've been experimenting with compiling various GNU packages from source for use in a very minimal chroot environment, among them man-db and dependencies (bash, gdbm, zlib, groff, less). However, I've noticed something odd: if I type `man <something>` (<something> being a valid manpage name), a completely empty less screen opens. Something must be failing to output the page — but what?
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Are the actual compressed man pages there on the filesystem? Do they look valid? If so, something's messing up with man's formatting of the pages.
Try running "mandb" by itself and then accessing man pages.
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