Hello All, Am 2007-04-24 22:49:58, schrieb Ken Bloom: > tags 156497 - unreproducible > thanks
> The relevant line of your broken strace is this one:
> 3794 execve("/usr/bin/apropos", ["apropos", "-M", "/usr/man", "ls"],
> [/* 75 vars */]) = 0
>
> I'm not sure why apropos is scanning those other directories when it's
> been given a command-line option telling it not to, but clearly it's
> not reporting anything it finds in those directories.
>
> In your working strace, however,
> xman.strace.26546:11:43:24.044047 [400b0a7d] execve("/usr/bin/apropos",
> ["apropos", "-M", "/home/michelle.konzack/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/local/man",
> "directory"],
> [...,"MANPATH=/home/michelle.konzack/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/local/man",...])=0
>
> Is it possible that you've got $MANPATH set only when running from
> inside an xterm (e.g. if your .bashrc is setting $MANPATH)? I find that
> xman works for me when I run it with $MANPATH set. It seems xman calls
> apropos with -M $MANPATH when $MANPATH is set, and -M /usr/man
> otherwise.
>
> So you're seeing the same thing I am.
I have set the $MANPATH insice FVWM and restarted...
Now APROPOS is working.
I think, I will look in the sources this weekend
Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
Michelle Konzack
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