man pages problem (lines ?-?/? (END))

Username2 · 11-08-2009, 07:42 PM

Hi.

I installed Slackware earlier and everything is running fine except my manpages arent working. I have installed the packages.

I looked at other threads and the suggested fix was to install textutils. I searched about and found that textutils was now inside coreutils, and thus installed the latest coreutils, but there is no change.

Does anyone know a solution?

Thanks.

Chuck56 · 11-08-2009, 08:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Username2

Does anyone know a solution?

I'm running Slackware 13 32 bit stable. Man pages work for me so here's the output from ldd that shows shared library dependancies.

Code:

user@slacker:~# ldd -v /usr/bin/man
        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xffffe000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb7e1d000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7fa2000)

        Version information:
        /usr/bin/man:
                libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.3) => /lib/libc.so.6
                libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.1) => /lib/libc.so.6
                libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.0) => /lib/libc.so.6
        /lib/libc.so.6:
                ld-linux.so.2 (GLIBC_PRIVATE) => /lib/ld-linux.so.2
                ld-linux.so.2 (GLIBC_2.3) => /lib/ld-linux.so.2
                ld-linux.so.2 (GLIBC_2.1) => /lib/ld-linux.so.2
user@slacker:~#

What does your ldd output?

Username2 · 11-09-2009, 10:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chuck56

I'm running Slackware 13 32 bit stable. Man pages work for me so here's the output from ldd that shows shared library dependancies.

Code:

user@slacker:~# ldd -v /usr/bin/man
        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xffffe000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb7e1d000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7fa2000)

        Version information:
        /usr/bin/man:
                libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.3) => /lib/libc.so.6
                libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.1) => /lib/libc.so.6
                libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.0) => /lib/libc.so.6
        /lib/libc.so.6:
                ld-linux.so.2 (GLIBC_PRIVATE) => /lib/ld-linux.so.2
                ld-linux.so.2 (GLIBC_2.3) => /lib/ld-linux.so.2
                ld-linux.so.2 (GLIBC_2.1) => /lib/ld-linux.so.2
user@slacker:~#

What does your ldd output?

Hi, my ldd outputs

Code:

username@usernamepc:~$ ldd -v /usr/bin/man
        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xffffe000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb7dd2000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f4b000)

        Version information:
        /usr/bin/man:
                libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.3) => /lib/libc.so.6
                libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.1) => /lib/libc.so.6
                libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.0) => /lib/libc.so.6
        /lib/libc.so.6:
                ld-linux.so.2 (GLIBC_PRIVATE) => /lib/ld-linux.so.2
                ld-linux.so.2 (GLIBC_2.3) => /lib/ld-linux.so.2
                ld-linux.so.2 (GLIBC_2.1) => /lib/ld-linux.so.2
username@usernamepc:~$

sahko · 11-09-2009, 11:03 AM

I honestly wonder how did you manage to install and therefore use an installation without coreutils.
Did you install groff as well?

tuxdev · 11-09-2009, 11:08 AM

My system throws an error like that when attempting to read localized manpages (I run with LANG=ja_JP.UTF8). I never really bothered tracking it down why exactly it does that. I do "LANG=C man foo" so that it'll give me English, which always works.

Username2 · 11-09-2009, 01:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sahko

I honestly wonder how did you manage to install and therefore use an installation without coreutils.
Did you install groff as well?

Yeh I installed groff yesterday, im sure I installed coreutils in my initial installation, I definitely didnt uncheck it.

Quote:

Originally Posted by tuxdev

My system throws an error like that when attempting to read localized manpages (I run with LANG=ja_JP.UTF8). I never really bothered tracking it down why exactly it does that. I do "LANG=C man foo" so that it'll give me English, which always works.

Didnt work for me unfortunately.

When I use man I also get the errors:

Code:

sh: /usr/bin/gtbl: No such file or directory
sh: /usr/bin/nroff: No such file or directory

Username2 · 11-09-2009, 05:41 PM

I have also noticed that I dont have a /usr/bin/groff folder or file, is this a problem? Groff installs fine.

Chuck56 · 11-09-2009, 05:48 PM

Take a look in /var/log/packages and open the groff-* text file. It shows you what was installed by the package.

Username2 · 11-09-2009, 05:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chuck56

Take a look in /var/log/packages and open the groff-* text file. It shows you what was installed by the package.

Hmm, no groff file in there, so obviously its not installing correctly.

Username2 · 11-09-2009, 06:05 PM

So I reinstalled groff and read that I had to made symlinks to make xman work:

Code:

ln -s soelim /usr/bin/zsoelim
ln -s eqn /usr/bin/geqn
ln -s tbl /usr/bin/gtbl

Now my man pages work! But the text is all messed up.

Code:

CHMOD(1)                                                                                            User Commands                                                                                            CHMOD(1)

ESC[1mNAMEESC[0m
       chmod - change file mode bits

ESC[1mSYNOPSISESC[0m
       ESC[1mchmod ESC[22m[ESC[4mOPTIONESC[24m]... ESC[4mMODEESC[24m[ESC[4m,MODEESC[24m]... ESC[4mFILEESC[24m...
       ESC[1mchmod ESC[22m[ESC[4mOPTIONESC[24m]... ESC[4mOCTAL-MODEESC[24m ESC[4mFILEESC[24m...
       ESC[1mchmod ESC[22m[ESC[4mOPTIONESC[24m]... ESC[4m--reference=RFILEESC[24m ESC[4mFILEESC[24m...

Any ideas?

Username2 · 11-09-2009, 06:08 PM

Fixed it!

Code:

Change the following line in /usr/share/misc/man.conf:

NROFF       /usr/bin/nroff -Tlatin1 -mandoc

to

NROFF        /usr/bin/nroff -c -mandoc 2>/dev/null

Thanks for all your help.