58598 – man doesn't work for non-root user unless you run the man page as root

Bug 58598 - man doesn't work for non-root user unless you run the man page as root

Summary: man doesn't work for non-root user unless you run the man page as root

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 40322

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High major (vote)
Assignee:	SpanKY

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Reported:	2004-07-27 16:25 UTC by Brett I. Holcomb
Modified:	2005-07-17 13:06 UTC (History)
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Description Brett I. Holcomb 2004-07-27 16:25:54 UTC

This bug has been around awhile.  I did find #40322 but it's marked fixed.  Well it isn't.  It keeps coming back.  I merged ntp recently, when I did man ntpd as a user I get:

rm: remove write-protected regular empty file `/var/cache/man/cat1/ntpd.1.bz2'? 

I've been getting this routinely and have bugged it.  One fix was to manually change permissions. That works fine once but it keeps happening over and over.  Is the ebuild broken - are permissions getting set incorrectly by an install?

Comment 1 Björn Michaelsen 2004-07-27 16:30:24 UTC

Can second that.
This is fixable only by running bzip2recover as root.

Comment 2 Brett I. Holcomb 2004-07-27 16:58:17 UTC

Bug 40322 has a procedure to rm a directory, then emerge man.  Does that work for you?  Even if it does it's not a fix.  I can do that, things work good then at some merge later it breaks again.

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2004-07-28 16:09:02 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 40322 ***