Man pages don't work, tried remerging man and groff. The problem seems to lie in the lack of a command after the last pipe (see actual results). Also tried remerging baselayout, an account with no bashrc/etc stuff, tried a clean man conf. The sourcecode didn't give me a clue about my problem. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. man <anymanpage> 2. 3. Actual Results: man ls sh: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `)' sh: -c: line 0: `(cd /usr/share/man && (echo ".ll 12.6i"; echo ".nr LL 12.6i"; echo ".pl 1100i"; /bin/bzip2 -c -d '/usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.bz2'; echo ".\\\""; echo ".pl \n(nlu+10") | /usr/bin/gtbl | /usr/bin/nroff -Tascii -c -mandoc | )' Error executing formatting or display command. System command (cd /usr/share/man && (echo ".ll 12.6i"; echo ".nr LL 12.6i"; echo ".pl 1100i"; /bin/bzip2 -c -d '/usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.bz2'; echo ".\\\""; echo ".pl \n(nlu+10") | /usr/bin/gtbl | /usr/bin/nroff -Tascii -c -mandoc | ) exited with status 2. No manual entry for ls Expected Results: Display man page. Portage 2.1.2-r1 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.19.1-rt15 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.19.1-rt15 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.9 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 10:50:01 +0000 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.31-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4, 2.5-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 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 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.19.2-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k8 -Os -pipe -msse3" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -Os -pipe -msse3" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig cached-virtuals distlocks metadata-transfer nostrip sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/" INSTALL_MASK="/usr/bin/emerge" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="en nl" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/local/nouveau /usr/local/portage /usr/local/nouveau /usr/portage/local/layman/xeffects /usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/portage/local/layman/pro-audio /usr/portage/local/layman/science" SYNC="rsync://rsync.nl.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X Xaw3d accessibility alsa amd64 aotuv berkdb bitmap-fonts cairo caps cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dhcp dlloader dri dvd dvdr eds emboss encode fam firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gimpprint gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog jack jpeg ldap libg++ mad mikmod minimal mp3 mpeg musepack ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl ssl svg tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb v4l v4l2 vorbis xml xorg xv xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ice1724" 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" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en nl" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv nouveau" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
you have PAGER exported to "" dont do that
Thank you, why i had that set i don't know.
