Short copy & paste of the bug

bizarre-man-failure.txt (text/plain), 876 bytes, created by kit on 2004-08-11 15:44:38 UTC

/* 2004.2 Stage3 network-ish install */

[continuity@pseudo: ~] $ man gzip
/* Man page shows as normal */
[continuity@pseudo: ~] $ man ld
fgets: Success
Error reading man page /usr/share/man/man1/ld.1.gz
No manual entry for ld
[continuity@pseudo: ~] $ gzip -v -t /usr/share/man/man1/gzip.1.gz
gzip.1.gz:       OK
[continuity@pseudo: ~] $ gzip -v -t /usr/share/man/man1/ld.1.gz
ld.1.gz:         OK
[continuity@pseudo: ~] $ md5sum /usr/share/man/man1/ld.1.gz
0425081ab79cdea2bb24f59a5a35420a  /usr/share/man/man1/ld.1.gz
[continuity@pseudo: ~] $ qpkg -I | grep man
net-print/gnome-cups-manager *
sys-apps/help2man *
sys-apps/man *
sys-apps/man-pages *
[continuity@pseudo: ~] $ uname -a
Linux pseudo 2.6.7 #4 Thu Aug 5 18:17:33 GMT 2004 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1300MHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
[continuity@pseudo: ~] $ man --version
man, version 1.5m