From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 3 10:26:05 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E14916A4DA for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 10:26:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mjkarki@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EC2543D4C for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 10:26:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mjkarki@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m2so2441647uge for ; Thu, 03 Aug 2006 03:26:03 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=R9aO3yDEAtLffaP6AmbBzptFZPzWKhb/SutzaOEbjA4joThdvWPCX1XnPwnrqX4fjjSRPKSCG3kWI/VIElkukWAolXure/MlbrffE0PFMhPJULLwEbSKwpoX0BOBQhC3O+2ViFJ26OPolTub5sQBayXWLbk8LW3vJyzM2ehAQRc= Received: by 10.67.119.13 with SMTP id w13mr2461687ugm; Thu, 03 Aug 2006 03:26:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.67.101.7 with HTTP; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 03:26:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1b15366e0608030326w3c29a45bp69b60bc285afaa24@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 13:26:03 +0300 From: "Matti J. Karki" Sender: mjkarki@gmail.com To: "Jonathan Horne" In-Reply-To: <200608021803.04152.freebsd@dfwlp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <45035.167.246.36.14.1154463714.squirrel@webmail.dfwlp.org> <1b15366e0608020314y1d54a12fv77b066c0a8bbe020@mail.gmail.com> <200608021803.04152.freebsd@dfwlp.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 00e11d63be0c844a Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: need help troubleshooting man X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 10:26:05 -0000 On 8/3/06, Jonathan Horne wrote: > > I managed to get this kind of situation by installing first the > > "minimal set" (or "distribution") and then installing everything else > > from the ports. The minimal installation set does not have man pages. > > To get small - but fully functional - installation, I had to install > > the "User set", which contains the required binaries and all relevant > > documentation files. Maybe re-running the sysinstall and selecting > > appropriate distribution set could help? > > > > > > -Matti > > well, i thought about that for a moment, and i wasnt able to come to any real > conclusion. > > 1) i have only one box that is running STABLE, and its my x/kde workstation. > this is also my only computer with half-broken man pages. > 2) i have several production and development servers (no desktops), and they > are all RELENG. all my releng boxes have working man pages. > > what do i need to check between my working releng and my stable workstation to > find the difference in why the stable has broken mans? > Well, you could try to re-install the system manual pages (because it seems to me that those are missing): sysinstall -> Custom -> Choose Distributions -> Custom and check the "man - System manual pages" distribution set. -Matti