Escape sequences in man pages are printed "as it is" wihtout expanding. Described behaviour one can reproduce with command $ nroff -mandoc -man ./path_to_man | /usr/bin/less Desired behaviour is $ nroff -mandoc -man ./path_to_man | /usr/bin/less -R There is a lot of environment variables and config options that control less output, but its don't influence on man output. Defenetly, environment variable $LESS $ echo $LESS -R -M --shift 5 And PAGER/BROWSER varibles in /etc/man.conf $ noname ~ # grep -e "PAGER" /etc/man.conf PAGER /usr/bin/less -is -R Independently of context of these variables man output pages without expanding escape sequences. The bug occurence was noticed after upgrading to baselayout 2.0, Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: $ man man Actual Results: gives screen with trash of escape sequences Expected Results: Well-formed man page The bug arised after migration to baselayout 2.0 noname ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.1.5_rc1 (default-linux/x86/2007.0, gcc-4.2.3, glibc-2.7-r1, 2.6.24-hardened-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.24-hardened-r1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU E2160 @ 1.80GHz Timestamp of tree: Wed, 07 May 2008 18:04:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.2-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4, 2.5.1-r5 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.2.3 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.24 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/var/db/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://c.aliki.ru/pub/mirror/gentoo" LANG="ru_RU.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/var/db/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/var/db/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acl acpi alsa avi bash-completion berkdb bzip2 chroot cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups dba dbus divx4linux dri exif fbcon fontconfig fortran gdbm gtk2 hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog jbig jpeg jpeg2k lcms matroska memlimit midi mmx mpeg mudflap ncurses nptl nptlonly openexr opengl openmp pam pcre pic png pppd python qt readline reflection rtc sasl session spl sse sse2 ssl ssse3 svg tcpd threads tiff unicode usb x86 xorg xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="emu10k1" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="authz_groupfile authz_user authz_owner authn_file auth_basic authz_svn_module filter unique_id access authz_host auth auth_dbm auth_anon auth_digest alias file_cache echo charset_lite cache disk_cache mem_cache ext_filter case_filter case_filter_in deflate mime_magic cern_meta expires headers usertrack proxy proxy_connect proxy_ftp proxy_http info include cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock vhost_alias speling rewrite log_config logio env setenvif mime status autoindex asis negotiation dir actions so" APACHE2_MPMS="worker" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="v4l fbcon vesa" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 146315 ***
(In reply to comment #1) > > *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 146315 *** > Please, point out to the solution. I can't connect bug 146515 with my problem. Thanks.
i had the same problem, using sys-apps/groff-1.19.2-r1 and sys-apps/man-1.6f-r1, the versions mentioned in the other bug, the versions which /should/ work... adding -c to the NROFF line in /etc/man.conf solved the problem for me, so the line reads now: NROFF /usr/bin/nroff -c -mandoc hope this helps.
