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10-01-2008, 01:38 PM	#1
arctgx LQ Newbie Registered: Dec 2007 Location: Brodnica, Poland Distribution: Debian testing Posts: 10 Rep:	"man something" gives empty result except for a random invoking Code: #... n times, where n is a random number;) cur $ man udev cur $ man udev cur $ man udev cur $ man udev cur $ man udev cur $ man udev cur $ man udev (END) I must to invoke man command random times, then man page is open properly. I have no idea about the cause of this strange behaviour. This take place only if the Polish version of manual page exists. P.S. Do I have described the problem clearly? Last edited by arctgx; 10-01-2008 at 01:49 PM.

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