[arch-general] Issue with man

[Damien Churchill]

On 25 March 2010 00:36, Damien Churchill <damoxc at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 24 March 2010 23:52, Linas <linas_fi at 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.