In some cases 'man <command>' leaves behind an empty cached file in /var/cache/man/cat*/* . Subsequently, it is impossible for a normal user to get the manual page of this command. Running 'man <command>' as root will recreate a correct cached version, and will remove the problem. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. End up with an empty /var/cache/man/car*/<command> file (turn off computer at wrong time, log off with kill -9, ...) 2. Do 'man command' 3. Actual Results: $ man ls rm: remove write-protected regular empty file `/var/cache/man/cat1/ls.1.bz2'? y rm: cannot remove `/var/cache/man/cat1/ls.1.bz2': Permission denied Formatting page, please wait... sh: line 1: /var/cache/man/cat1/ls.1.bz2: Permission denied Error executing formatting or display command. System command (cd /usr/share/man && (echo ".pl 1100i"; /bin/gunzip -c '/usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz'; echo ".\\\""; echo ".pl \n(nlu+10") | /usr/bin/gtbl | /usr/bin/nroff -Tlatin1 -c -mandoc | /bin/bzip2 > /var/cache/man/cat1/ls.1.bz2) exited with status 1. Expected Results: Give ls man page Gentoo Base System version 1.5.2 Portage 2.0.50-r9 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r0, 2.6.8-rc2) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.8-rc2 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz distcc 2.16 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -g -march=pentium4 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -g -march=pentium4 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache nostrip sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X Xaw3d aalib acpi acpi4linux alsa avi berkdb bidi bindist bonobo caps cddb cdr chroot crypt cscope cups curl dga dillo directfb dnd dvd emacs encode evo faad fam fbcon ffmpeg fftw flac flash foomaticdb gb gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imap imlib irda jack java javascript jbig jikes joystick jpeg kde lcms libdsk libg++ libgda libwww linguas_en linguas_nl lirc ltsp mad mbox memlimit mikmod mmx mng motif mozilla mozp3p mozsvg mpeg msn music ncurses nls offensive ofx oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl pic png ppds python qt quicktime quotes radeon readline ruby samba scanner sdl skey sox speedo speex spell sse ssl stencil-buffer t1lib tcltk tcpd theora tiff transparent-proxy truetype type1 usb v4l vim-with-x wmf x86 xchattext xemacs xine xinerama xml2 xmms xosd xv xvid yahoo zlib zvbi"
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 40322 ***
