Straight to the point, I'm getting this error message after I open any man page and it closes:
[pts/1][19:53][gelnven@gelnven][~] man man
gunzip: stdout: Broken pipe
gunzip: stdout: Broken pipe
grotty:<standard input>:4212:fatal error: output error


I have found some references to some errors with 2.6.x kernel and they requesting to make changes in the /etc/udev/rules.d file. Mine is already running with the correct entries:

# pty devices
KERNEL="pty[p-za-e][0-9a-f]*", NAME="pty/m%n", SYMLINK="%k"
KERNEL="tty[p-za-e][0-9a-f]*", NAME="pty/s%n", SYMLINK="%k"


Another reference talks about disk space. At present this is not an issue:
[pts/1][19:53][gelnven@gelnven][~] df -h | sort
/dev/hda1 23M 8.5M 13M 41% /boot
/dev/hda2 5.6G 2.8G 2.9G 50% /
/dev/hda3 2.8G 1.6G 1.1G 60% /home
/dev/hda5 628M 370M 259M 59% /usr/local


Googling hasn't been much help either, or at least I'm not looking for the right thing in the right way.

Any input on this would be greatly appreciated. I am running kernel 2.6.8.1 on Slackware 10.0

I had the same problems with man after upgrading to 2.6.9, simply updating udev to a current version "should" fix your problem. See the following link http://mirror.pudas.net/slackware/sl...042-i486-1.tgz

I'm not sure about the disk space reference, I'd have to research that one.

Cheers!

Thank you very much that seemed to fix it right up. Every time I think I've got things down pat. something new comes along and I get to be brought back to the level of newbie status.

Thank you for your prompt reply and very useful solution.

Imyrryr,

You're very welcome!

Dont' feel bad, I spent nearly a day trying to figure out what was wrong with man after I went from 2.4.26 to 2.6.9. I finally compared the udev versions between Slack 10.0 and that which was on the udev site. To my surprise it was nearly 20 versions behind, I updated udev and that solved my problem. I also learned that the 2.6.x Kernel requires udev to be up to date.

Merry Christmas and have a happy New Year!