Bug 541446 – x11-apps/xman: error "sh: zsoelim: not found" when attempting to render a manpage

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Roland 2015-02-26 17:22:31 UTC]

x11-apps/xman-1.1.3
    
xman

Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*" to type FontStruct
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*" to type FontStruct
Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-courier-bold-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*" to type FontStruct
Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-courier-medium-o-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*" to type FontStruct
Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-symbol-*-*-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*" to type FontStruct
sh: zsoelim:

[Comment 1 Roland 2015-02-26 17:23:15 UTC]

sh: zsoelim: not found

[Comment 2 Michael Orlitzky 2015-03-02 22:22:51 UTC]

This could be related?

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=764792

[Comment 3 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn 2015-03-04 09:34:18 UTC]

The dependencies have been updated in xman-1.1.3

If you want this fixed to work with >=sys-apps/man-db-2.7, create a bug report upstream at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/

[Comment 4 Ted Marston 2015-03-04 22:48:48 UTC]

Its not fixed for me. We now have x11-apps/xman needing sys-apps/man-db, which cannot be on the same system sys-apps/man.

[Comment 5 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn 2015-03-05 12:51:23 UTC]

I changed the dependency on old man-db versions to a blocker against newer man-db versions. Hopefully this should cover all cases now.

In addition the patch from Debian was added to xman-1.1.3-r1.

[Comment 6 Roland 2015-03-09 09:10:45 UTC]

I installed the -r1 Version and the same Problem again...
sh: zsoelim:not found...
Should I install a newer man-db?

[Comment 7 Roland 2015-03-09 09:17:13 UTC]

Also with the newer man-db it will not work.
It can not be stable!

[Comment 8 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn 2015-03-26 23:55:42 UTC]

xman-1.1.3, which is the only stable version, blocks man-db-2.7 now.

So stable users should not see this problem.

[Comment 9 Pacho Ramos 2015-11-17 12:38:38 UTC]

Created attachment 417204 [details, diff]
man-db.patch

Debian patch to fix this

[Comment 10 Pacho Ramos 2015-11-17 12:43:44 UTC]

The problem is that it would need to be rebuilt each time people switch between man and man-db :S

[Comment 11 Pacho Ramos 2015-11-17 12:47:14 UTC]

Other option would be to try to use /usr/libexec/man-db/zsoelim (from man-db) and, if not found, fallback to zsoelim in the PATH (from old man)

[Comment 12 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn 2015-11-20 06:16:15 UTC]

Comment on attachment 417204 [details, diff]
man-db.patch

This exact patch is already applied since xman-1.1.3-r1, but according to comment 6 the problem still exists.

[Comment 13 Pacho Ramos 2015-11-20 07:25:11 UTC]

Maybe providing config.log could show if MANDB is even being detected :/

[Comment 14 Pacho Ramos 2016-05-17 15:35:23 UTC]

in my case xman-1.1.4 looks to work fine with man-db-2.7.5, can you retry? Also, configure looks to properly detect man-db is being used on my system

[Comment 15 Roland 2016-05-23 06:24:51 UTC]

With 1.1.4 all works fine.

Regards

[Comment 16 Pacho Ramos 2016-05-23 09:00:49 UTC]

Nice :)