> > Dear Fellow Debian Users: > > (let me know if I've posted this to the wrong place; I don't think > it's a Debian bug per-se, but a local installation problem I can't > solve). > > I'm running Debian-1.3 on two machines, my home computer and my > work computer. My home computer runs man just fine, but on my > work computer, man doesn't work. > > If I type man <whatever>, some disk activity and CPU are used, but > then the man process appears to just hang (no more disk or CPU > consumed). I know that man is actually a front-end to several processing > steps, so I suspect that one of the intermediate steps is hanging. > I have deinstalled and reinstalled packages relevant to man and > the problem has not gone away.
Have you partially upgraded to unstable? I saw similar behavior under those circumstances rick -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .