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From: andrew@ugh.net.au
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Subject: manpages sometimes appear to be 0 bytes
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>Number:         2460
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       manpages sometimes appear to be 0 bytes
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    mpp
>State:          closed
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Jan 12 07:50:01 PST 1997
>Closed-Date:    Wed Mar 12 05:59:58 PST 1997
>Last-Modified:  Wed Mar 12 06:01:04 PST 1997
>Originator:     Andrew Stevenson
>Release:        2.2-BETA_A
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD sally.ugh.net.au 2.2-BETA_A FreeBSD 2.2-BETA_A #0: Sat Jan 11 22:19:46
EST 1997	andrew@sally.ugh.net.au:/usr/src/sys/compile/SALLY	i386
>Description:
Every now and then (it happened a lot when I first installed) when you
type man <whatever> it says formatting page....Done and then your
prompt returns. You dont get a man page. A 0 byte file (until it was
compressed) is left in man/cat?. If you delete this file and type man
<whatever> again it usually works.

>How-To-Repeat:
Read a few manpages till you get the bug...it used to happen to me all
the time but now only occaisonally.

>Fix:

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->mpp 
Responsible-Changed-By: mpp 
Responsible-Changed-When: Sun Jan 26 13:00:21 PST 1997 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
/freebsdTypoed last time... 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: mpp 
State-Changed-When: Mon Jan 27 21:39:06 PST 1997 
State-Changed-Why:  
The originator is unable to duplicate this right now due to 
a lack of hardware :-). 

Another user reported that some other changes fixed this 
and some other "odd" problems. 

So, for those reasons, I'm closing this PR.  Please let me know 
if anyone else can duplicate this under -current and I 
will re-open this PR. 

From: Andrew <andrew@ugh.net.au>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, andrew@ugh.net.au
Cc:  Subject: Re: docs/2460: manpages sometimes appear to be 0 bytes
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 16:54:57 -0700

 Hi,
 
 > The originator is unable to duplicate this right now due to 
        a lack of hardware :-). 
 
 I have hardware again :-)
 
 I installed 2.2-BETA again and get the same problem. As an example a 
 freshly installed slang-lynx2.6FM from the packages collection did it 
 to me this morning. I tried zcat /usr/local/man/man1/slynx.1.gz and 
 that worked as expected. zcat /usr/local/man/man1/slynx.1.gz | nroff 
 -man produces no output so I guess the bug lies in nroff (or the man 
 macro bit).
 
 Andrew
State-Changed-From-To: closed->open 
State-Changed-By: mpp 
State-Changed-When: Wed Jan 29 22:06:26 PST 1997 
State-Changed-Why:  
Originator can duplicate this again.  It looks like it 
might be a problem with compressed/uncompressed man pages. 

From: rob@ugh.net.au
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, andrew@ugh.net.au
Cc:  Subject: Re: docs/2460: manpages sometimes appear to be 0 bytes
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 21:34:19 +1100

 I get a similar problem when i try to read a previously unformatted
 man page as a regular user.  It says:
 
 zcat: /usr/share/man/cat1/vidcontrol.1.gz: unexpected end of file
 
 If i read the man page as root first it works. but if i try as a user
 first and then root, it doesn't.
 
 If I do a ls -l of one of the files its 0 bytes.
 
 Rob
 

From: Andrew <andrew@ugh.net.au>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, rob@ugh.net.au
Cc:  Subject: Re: docs/2460: manpages sometimes appear to be 0 bytes
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1997 15:59:42 +1100

 Hi,
 
 Doing a man -d <whatever> shows a permission denied error which explains
 the root v regular user thing rob@ugh.net.au found. I dont appear to get
 this error under 2.2-970212-GAMMA however so perhaps it has been fixed.
 
 Andrew
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: mpp 
State-Changed-When: Wed Mar 12 05:59:58 PST 1997 
State-Changed-Why:  
The originator says that 2.2-GAMMA appears to have 
fixed the problem. 
>Unformatted:
