Suddenly can't read man pages

Clint Harshaw clint at penguinsolutions.org
Tue Jul 20 03:50:56 UTC 2004


Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> What would cause some users (me and root, in particular, but not others)
> to be suddenly unable to read any man page that isn't already in
> /var/cache/man/?  Any other man page displays a blank screen with the
> (END) prompt from less.  Happens in GNOME and on the console.
> 
> TIA.

Matthew:
Does the same behavior show up when you are using xterm?
Clint





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