Nisse Posted November 18, 2003 Report Share Posted November 18, 2003 I recently had to power cycle my 9.1 box. All's well except the man-pages were eaten by fsck. I reinstalled the man, and man-pages rpms and now man shows me a blank screen. How do I make man display it's pages? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarah31 Posted November 18, 2003 Report Share Posted November 18, 2003 so if you issue the command man man you don't even get man page? have you even made sure that you have not lost your man pages (man pages would be in a few places likely). if you lost your man directory then reinstalling man and man-pages will not get the other manpages back. for example manpages for xine are not contained within man-pages. xine supplies its own set of manpages like most other apps/libs/etc your groff package may also need upgrading. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nisse Posted November 19, 2003 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2003 (edited) The man-pages are there allright, in /usr/share/man. But man can't seem to find them. Man man yields an empty page. I have also checked everything referred to in /etc/man.conf and all files exist. I have set up the manpath to point to /usr/share/man. Still nothing... Edited November 19, 2003 by Nisse Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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