[gentoo-user] man segmentation fault

[gentoo-user] man segmentation fault

[Jean Magnan de Bornier]

hello all,
Since my last emerge -uD world (where man was updated to man-1.6), I
receive a "segmentation fault" when trying to see a man page, this seems
to be true for all users and within bash as well as zsh. I remember that
the conf file has been modified but I'm afraid i did not care to look at
what was changed!
No bug report afaik

please no "rtfm" :-)

tia 
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Re: [gentoo-user] man segmentation fault

[Sascha Hlusiak]

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Hi,

> hello all,
> Since my last emerge -uD world (where man was updated to man-1.6), I
> receive a "segmentation fault" when trying to see a man page, this seems
> to be true for all users and within bash as well as zsh. I remember that
> the conf file has been modified but I'm afraid i did not care to look at
> what was changed!
I have the same problem. I figured out that it only occurs, when I run
man in a small terminal in X. When I resize the terminal, it works fine,
as well as in an vc.
I just found out now, that it also seems to be a problem with caching.
If I uncomment the NOCACHE line in /etc/man.conf, it seems to work
again. Can you confirm that?

Sascha

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Re: [gentoo-user] man segmentation fault

[Jean Magnan de Bornier]

Le 10 juillet à 10:43:39 Sascha Hlusiak <saschahlusiak@arcor.de> écrit notamment:

| Hi,
| 
| > hello all,
| > Since my last emerge -uD world (where man was updated to man-1.6), I
| > receive a "segmentation fault" when trying to see a man page, this seems
| > to be true for all users and within bash as well as zsh. I remember that
| > the conf file has been modified but I'm afraid i did not care to look at
| > what was changed!
| I have the same problem. I figured out that it only occurs, when I run
| man in a small terminal in X. When I resize the terminal, it works fine,
| as well as in an vc.

Well in the vc it didn't work either for me.

| I just found out now, that it also seems to be a problem with caching.
| If I uncomment the NOCACHE line in /etc/man.conf, it seems to work
| again. Can you confirm that?

Yes I confirm that, thanks for the tip!
cheers,
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  Jean Magnan de Bornier             |        Cours Victor Hugo
  e-mots: jean at bornier.net        |        13980 Alleins   France
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Re: [gentoo-user] man segmentation fault

[Alexander Kirillov]

> Le 10 juillet à 10:43:39 Sascha Hlusiak <saschahlusiak@arcor.de> écrit notamment:
> 
> | Hi,
> | 
> | > hello all,
> | > Since my last emerge -uD world (where man was updated to man-1.6), I
> | > receive a "segmentation fault" when trying to see a man page, this seems
> | > to be true for all users and within bash as well as zsh. I remember that
> | > the conf file has been modified but I'm afraid i did not care to look at
> | > what was changed!
> | I have the same problem. I figured out that it only occurs, when I run
> | man in a small terminal in X. When I resize the terminal, it works fine,
> | as well as in an vc.
> 
> Well in the vc it didn't work either for me.
> 
> | I just found out now, that it also seems to be a problem with caching.
> | If I uncomment the NOCACHE line in /etc/man.conf, it seems to work
> | again. Can you confirm that?
> 
> Yes I confirm that, thanks for the tip!

Seems to be fixed in sys-apps/man-1.6-r1
Still complains if called without parameters:
Cannot open the message catalog "man" for locale "ru_RU.KOI8-R"
(NLSPATH="<none>")
Is there a way to fix this?
TIA,
Sasha

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