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FS#18928 - [man-pages] Man pages with page number 3 need explcitely set LANG variable

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Stefan Husmann (stefanhusmann) - Friday, 02 April 2010, 13:09 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Sunday, 02 May 2010, 14:13 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description: Man pages with page number 3 need explcitely set LANG variable. I LANG ist not set, there is an error message

[haawda@frege svn-packages]$ man strstr
man: Warnung: /usr/share/man/man3x/strstr.3.gz: ignoriere unsinnigen Dateinamen
man: Warnung: /usr/share/man/man3x/strstr.3p.gz: ignoriere unsinnigen Dateinamen
man: man.c:2393: display: Zusicherung »decomp->ncommands == 1« nicht erfüllt.
Abgebrochen

If setting LANG=C (or LANG=en) the man page is properly displayed.
My LANG is set to de_DE.utf8. I know there is no translation for strstr.3, but shoudn't it fallback to english then?

Additional info:
* package version(s) man-pages 3.24-1
* config and/or log files etc.


Steps to reproduce: run "man strstr". Set LANG, and rerun "man strstr".
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Closed by  Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Sunday, 02 May 2010, 14:13 GMT
Reason for closing:  Works for me
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Saturday, 10 April 2010, 12:24 GMT
I cannot confirm this.

[andyrtr@workstation64 ~]$ env | grep LANG
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
[andyrtr@workstation64 ~]$ man strstr
man: Warnung: /usr/share/man/man3x/strstr.3.gz: ignoriere unsinnigen Dateinamen
man: Warnung: /usr/share/man/man3x/strstr.3p.gz: ignoriere unsinnigen Dateinamen
[andyrtr@workstation64 ~]$

The page is well displayed with pager "less" here.
Comment by Stefan Husmann (stefanhusmann) - Tuesday, 13 April 2010, 20:29 GMT
Changing from pager "most" to "less" here does not change the weird behaviour here. It may nevertheless be an errro on my system.
Comment by vincent (la_poigne) - Monday, 26 April 2010, 19:22 GMT
Same error on two pc (one i686 & one x86_64) with LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Sunday, 02 May 2010, 14:13 GMT
Sorry, can't confirm this. Try to contact the upstream developer. Maybe he can giver you a hint. Works for me.

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