topic Re: man command errors in Operating System - HP-UX

man command errors

Ashish Parashar — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:30:18 GMT

Hello Gurus ..

I am facing a sterange problem for particular user.

few man command are working but rest are returning prompt after Refarmatting Wait .... status ...

for example
man cp ...works but man of others just return prompt...

what may be the cause ??

I have checked /usr/share/man ,.profile ,.bash_profile and all that ...didn;t found anything starnge :(

Regards

Ashish

Re: man command errors

Pete Randall — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:33:40 GMT

Any file systems full? Check bdf output.

Pete

Re: man command errors

Ashish Parashar — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:36:52 GMT

no ..everything is normal

Re: man command errors

Pete Randall — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:41:06 GMT

Is the MANPATH variable set properly or is there anything unusual about this user's environment?

Pete

Re: man command errors

Ganesan R — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:41:08 GMT

Hi Ashish,

Is it happening only for particular user? or group of users?

If it is for particular users, are other users having same privilage able to access?

Re: man command errors

Pete Randall — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:44:42 GMT

Is this user able to access "nroff"? If not, they would only be able to see the uncompressed entries.

Pete

Re: man command errors

Ashish Parashar — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:45:24 GMT

Yes this issue is for particular user ...which same privileges thne others ....starnge thing is man cp and man ls works ..but not other man pages ....if this is the issue of previlages then not a single man page work.

Regards

Ashish

Re: man command errors

Ashish Parashar — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:50:16 GMT

hellp pete

User is able to execute nroff :(

Re: man command errors

Ganesan R — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:50:20 GMT

Hi,

Check man path for that particular user and compare it with working user.

#echo $MANPATH

Re: man command errors

Ashish Parashar — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:51:39 GMT

Hello Ganesan

MANPATH is also same ....no difference:...I have also mentioned this in my question

Re: man command errors

Ashish Parashar — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:53:18 GMT

Sorry it was not in question ,but I have already checked PATH and MANPATH variable.

Re: man command errors

Dennis Handly — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:19:45 GMT

Do you have cat or non .Z directories in /usr/share/man/?

This could also fail if this user is in a directory with file named nroff, etc.

As that user, create a subshell and retry with a limited PATH:
sh
PATH=/usr/bin
man swlist # or whatever fails
exit

You could also use tusc to trace what man(1) is doing.

Re: man command errors

Suraj K Sankari — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 04:56:10 GMT

Hi,

If you create new user, is the new user able to do man ?
if yes then
1. delete your current user who is having problem create a new one with same user name.
2. copy newly created user's .profile into that old user's .profile

Suraj

Re: man command errors

Ashish Parashar — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:50:08 GMT

Well we cannot delete or make any change in .profile as its a production server....

strange thing is that ..if there is any issue on .profile or other stuff ...why man pages of cp and ls is works ...why not rest...any clue ???

Re: man command errors

Dennis Handly — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:30:10 GMT

>why man pages of cp and ls works? why not rest, any clue?

Why keep asking questions (that don't have simple answers) when you can use tusc to tell you why. Download it from:
http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/tusc-7.9/

Re: man command errors

Ashish Parashar — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:12:29 GMT

Hello Dennis

I have install tusc and tried to execute it for that user ....

its return with memory fault error for both the man command which is working and which is not working ...

Re: man command errors

F Verschuren — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:27:54 GMT

hi Ashish,
First of all concractelations on you new job...

Can you checkout the man path of this user?
Are all man paths availeble? ore is there a man path on a nfs share that is hanging?

Kind regards,
Freek Verschuren

ps do not forget bens and jerry's next time you are in europe...

Re: man command errors

Dennis Handly — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:45:00 GMT

>it return with memory fault error for both the man command which is working and which is not working

No output at all for:
tusc -fp -o tusc.out man swinstall
(What's in tusc.out?)

>Do you have cat or non .Z directories in
>As that user, create a subshell and retry with a limited PATH:

What were the answers for these questions?

Re: man command errors

Ashish Parashar — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:46:08 GMT

Hello Dennis

tusc command terminates with memory fault error .....with creating tusc.out file ..

>Do you have cat or non .Z directories in
>As that user, create a subshell and retry with a limited PATH:

Yes there are some non .Z directories and I have also tried vai creating subshell ...same result.

Re: man command errors

Ashish Parashar — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:47:55 GMT

Hello Freek

this time I will bring Indian Ben & Jerry;s :)

Anyways manpath is ok and no NFS path is mentioned over there.