[arch-general] Issue with man
I've got a rather confusing issue with man. Whenever I try and view a man page I just end up with a blank screen. http://www.imagebam.com/image/41dd5973332829 This occurs for any page, even for local ones. I was wondering if anyone would be able to shed any light on why this is occuring? Thanks, Damien
Damien Churchill wrote:
I've got a rather confusing issue with man. Whenever I try and view a man page I just end up with a blank screen.
http://www.imagebam.com/image/41dd5973332829
This occurs for any page, even for local ones. I was wondering if anyone would be able to shed any light on why this is occuring?
Thanks,
Damien
Does less work with other files? What happens if you use a different pager? Eg. PAGER=more man ls __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
On 24 March 2010 23:52, Linas <linas_fi@ymail.com> wrote:
Damien Churchill wrote:
I've got a rather confusing issue with man. Whenever I try and view a man page I just end up with a blank screen.
http://www.imagebam.com/image/41dd5973332829
This occurs for any page, even for local ones. I was wondering if anyone would be able to shed any light on why this is occuring?
Thanks,
Damien
Does less work with other files? What happens if you use a different pager? Eg. PAGER=more man ls
Hmm no that doesn't work, it just exits immediately without displaying anything. I also just tried man -Hchromium ls, and that displays a blank webpage.
On 25 March 2010 00:36, Damien Churchill <damoxc@gmail.com> wrote:
On 24 March 2010 23:52, Linas <linas_fi@ymail.com> wrote:
Damien Churchill wrote:
I've got a rather confusing issue with man. Whenever I try and view a man page I just end up with a blank screen.
http://www.imagebam.com/image/41dd5973332829
This occurs for any page, even for local ones. I was wondering if anyone would be able to shed any light on why this is occuring?
Thanks,
Damien
Does less work with other files? What happens if you use a different pager? Eg. PAGER=more man ls
Hmm no that doesn't work, it just exits immediately without displaying anything. I also just tried man -Hchromium ls, and that displays a blank webpage.
Turns out that I was having the same issue as in this thread: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=46501 Reinstalling groff did the trick. Guess it never installed correctly the first time for some reason as although the files were there pacman didn't think that the package was installed.
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