Hi Kenan, Kenan Toker <ke...@kdtsh.net> writes:
> Hi bug-guix, > > I’m emailing about an issue I was having with man pages, where man pages > were not displaying on a fresh install of Guix System 1.0.1 on a > Thinkpad x200 laptop. I did not experience the issue at any point on > another install of Guix, which I had installed using the Guix System > 1.0.0 installer in a QEMU virtual machine. I’ve outlined the issue > further along in this email. > > The issue: > After I had installed man-db and man-pages, if I ran e.g. `man ls`, I > got an empty man page with the following at the footer of the page: > > Manual page ls(1) line ?/? (END) (press h for help or q to quit) > > I was able to use the h key to look for help with man. When I pressed q > to quit, I got a message like the following from stdout: > > man: command exited with status 255: (cd > /run/current-system/profile/share/man && > /gnu/store/[...]-man-db-2.8.5/libexec/man-db/zsoelim) | [...] > > > To replicate the issue: > > 1. Do a clean install of Guix System using the 1.0.1 installer. The > nurses installation wizard is used with standard settings, no WM/DE, > and with one ext4 filesystem on / with disk encryption and a swap > partition. > 2. Install `man-db’, either as a package in a profile or as a package > in the OS configuration - in the case of the latter, do a `guix > system reconfigure’ with the new OS configuration. > 3. Run the man command with any input, e.g. `man ls’ or `man pwd’. > 4. Install any other package, e.g. emacs, and run the man command with > this too, i.e. `man emacs’. Sorry for failing to get back to you earlier; I suppose this is fixed in newer versions, the latest released one which is 1.3.0, so I'll close it. Please re-open the issue if it's still actual. Thank you! Maxim
