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From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>
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Subject: cannot fork
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I'm getting variations on the cannot fork message when trying to view
man pages from an xterm. xman isn't very happy either. This is
2.2.6-STABLE in case it matters.

Other programs will run without complaint.
If I close a few xterms, man will start working too.

I know it's been asked before, the mail archives are full of the
question but I can't find the posts containing the answers.
I thought it might be common enough to get FAQ status, but no.

Here's a taste:

sue@vedanix$ man ls
Cannot fork
Error executing formatting or display command.
system command exited with status 512
No manual entry for ls

sue@vedanix$ man man
Formatting page, please wait...Cannot fork
Failed.
Error executing formatting or display command.
system command exited with status 512
Cannot fork
Error executing formatting or display command.
system command exited with status 512
No manual entry for man

sue@vedanix$ apropos ls
/usr/bin/apropos: Cannot fork
apropos: manpath is null, use "/usr/share/man"
/usr/bin/apropos: Cannot fork
/usr/bin/apropos: Cannot fork


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Regards,
        -*Sue*-


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