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Bug 340993

Summary: sys-apps/sysvinit-2.88-r1 : man pages are corrupted
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Toralf Förster <toralf>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: minor CC: jer
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description Toralf Förster gentoo-dev 2010-10-14 15:19:54 UTC
I realized this today which seems to happen only for few man pages :

tfoerste@n22 ~ $ man halt
Error parsing *roff command from file /usr/share/man/man8/halt.8.bz2

tfoerste@n22 ~ $ man reboot
Error parsing *roff command from file /usr/share/man/man8/halt.8.bz2

tfoerste@n22 ~ $ man shutdown
Error parsing *roff command from file /usr/share/man/man8/shutdown.8.bz2


Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2011-08-29 19:44:58 UTC
guess you forgot you filed this bug when you filed again later :P

duping to the newer one since it has more info

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 362817 ***
Comment 2 Toralf Förster gentoo-dev 2011-08-29 20:38:03 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> guess you forgot you filed this bug when you filed again later :P
Well - I'm definitely too old ...