Title: Re: F9: Man pages missing/broken?
Michael Schwendt wrote:
On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:16:21 -0700, Dan Thurman
wrote:
> > What do you get for "strace man -k grub"
and "strace man man"?
> It appears that the alliance package has
messed up the man pages?
That cannot be concluded, since you only showed the
strace for the command
that works for you. The alliance pkg altered the
linker's search path,
unrelated to your problem.
> Clearly there
> is an alliance directory with it's man pages but
perhaps they are using
> a directory
> path with a missing /man sibdirectory? I will
look into this further to
> see where
> or why the /usr/lib/alliance directory is defined
in the man search path.
Examine your environment variables after logging
in. grep for "MAN"
as it could be that $MANPATH or $MANSECT or others are
different than
what is found in /etc/man.config -- that would
override man.config
with non-working values.
"man -k" is same as "apropos" and fetches info from
the whatis db,
a path that is built-in and different from $MANPATH.
Ok, as a test, I reinstalled Alliance and when I log in
as su - or su -l, I noticed that:
# env | grep MAN
MANPATH=/usr/lib/alliance/man
So where does this happen? I looked into root's $HOME and found
no place where that entry is installed. I looked at /etc/man.config and
saw nothing added there. Where does this get installed?
I also did:
# MANPATH=
then did:
man man
and it worked.
So why does Alliance insist on forcing MANPATH on users like that?
Really odd.
Dan
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