man gives segmentation fault

[Kevin Scott <scottkj@prl.research.philips.com>]

I am running Debian 1.3.1, and recently trying to run man gives a 
segmentation fault when run as a normal user (but not when run as root):

% man man
Segmentation fault

xman and tkman work fine.  I was fairly sure I hadn't played with any
relevant settings - the executable has setuid bit set as I would expect:

% ls -l /usr/bin/man
-rwsr-xr-x   1 man      root        71204 May 21 10:40 /usr/bin/man

testing man with strace also fails as a normal user:

% strace man
execve("/usr/bin/man", ["man"], [/* 29 vars */]) = 0
strace: exec: Operation not permitted

I am rather puzzled, so any ideas gratefully received!

Thanks,

Kevin

Dr Kevin Scott
Philips Electronics UK Limited
Patents and Trade Marks Department       Tel: +44 1293 815281
Cross Oak Lane, Redhill                  Fax: +44 1293 815060
Surrey  RH1 5HA, UK                   E-mail: scottkj@prl.research.philips.com


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