Public bug reported: Runnung command below and corresponding output: $man man shows blank page with status line as Manual page man(1) line ?/? (END) (press h for help or q to quit)
After quitting it shows below output: man: command exited with status 4: (cd /usr/share/man && /usr/lib/man-db/zsoelim) | (cd /usr/share/man && /usr/lib/man-db/manconv -f UTF-8:ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8//IGNORE) | (cd /usr/share/man && preconv -e UTF-8) | (cd /usr/share/man && tbl) | (cd /usr/share/man && nroff -mandoc -rLL=164n -rLT=164n -Tutf8) The below command returns man man > manerror.txt man: man: can't execute tbl: Permission denied can't execute preconv: Permission denied man: can't execute col: Permission denied groff: couldn't exec troff: Permission denied man: command exited with status 4: (cd /usr/share/man && /usr/lib/man-db/zsoelim) | (cd /usr/share/man && /usr/lib/man-db/manconv -f UTF-8:ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8//IGNORE) | (cd /usr/share/man && preconv -e UTF-8) | (cd /usr/share/man && tbl) | (cd /usr/share/man && nroff -mandoc -rLL=164n -rLT=164n -Tutf8) The Installed man-db details on my Ubuntu Gnome Desktop 18.04: Package: man-db Version: 2.8.3-2 State: installed Automatically installed: no Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: standard Section: doc Maintainer: Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org> Architecture: amd64 Uncompressed Size: 2,486 k Depends: bsdmainutils, debconf (>= 1.2.0) | debconf-2.0, groff-base (>= 1.18.1.1-15), libc6 (>= 2.17), libgdbm5 (>= 1.12), libpipeline1 (>= 1.5.0), libseccomp2 (>= 2.1.0), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4) PreDepends: dpkg (>= 1.16.1~) Suggests: apparmor, groff, less, www-browser Conflicts: man, suidmanager (< 0.50), man-db:i386 Breaks: manpages-tr (< 1.0.5.1-3), manpages-zh (< 1.5.2-1.1) Replaces: man, manpages-de (< 0.5-4), manpages-tr (< 1.0.5.1-3), manpages-zh (< 1.5.2-1.1), nlsutils Provides: man, man-browser, man-browser:i386, man-db:i386 (= 2.8.3-2) Provided by: man-db:i386 (2.8.3-2) ** Affects: man-db (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1778684 Title: man: command exited with status 4 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/man-db/+bug/1778684/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs