Garbage man pages

[Dave Korn]

Bill McCormick wrote:
> Dave Korn wrote:
>> Haojun Bao wrote:
>>
>>>> Bill McCormick wrote:
>>>>> Bill McCormick wrote:
>>>>>> Bill McCormick wrote:
>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> There's something wrong with my man pager; it's producing garbage
>>>>>>> output. My ~/.bashrc has these entries:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> export MANPAGER='less -isrR'
>>>>>>> export PAGER='less -r'
>>
>>> Hi, I also have the same issue.
>>>
>>> however, there was a warning before I do `man find' that says:
>>> Warning: cannot open configuration file /usr/share/misc/man.conf
>>>
>>> So, after a `find /etc -name "man.conf"', I fixed it by this command:
>>>
>>> cp /etc/defaults/usr/share/misc/man.conf /usr/share/misc/man.conf
>>>
>>> This maybe a packaging problem?
>>
>>   I tried temporarily moving my man.conf out of the way and it also
>> reproduces
>> the symptom's of Bill's problem exactly as he describes.  Bill, try this!
> 
> Yep. That's it.

  I said I'd check: there doesn't seem anything wrong with the packaging,
which hasn't changed in a couple of years now; the most likely thing is that
you and Bao experienced some kind of failure during running the postinstall
scripts.  Checking the log files /var/log/setup.* might show some indication
of the problem.  (But it also might not, error-handling paths are a known
weakness in setup.exe.)

    cheers,
      DaveK


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