Re: problem with man- it hangs on Debian-1.3

[hawk@eyry.econ.iastate.edu]

>
> Dear Fellow Debian Users:
> 
> (let me know if I've posted this to the wrong place; I don't think
> it's a Debian bug per-se, but a local installation problem I can't
> solve).
> 
> I'm running Debian-1.3 on two machines, my home computer and my
> work computer.  My home computer runs man just fine, but on my
> work computer, man doesn't work.
> 
> If I type man <whatever>, some disk activity and CPU are used, but
> then the man process appears to just hang (no more disk or CPU
> consumed).  I know that man is actually a front-end to several processing
> steps, so I suspect that one of the intermediate steps is hanging.
> I have deinstalled and reinstalled packages relevant to man and
> the problem has not gone away.

Have you partially upgraded to unstable?  I saw similar behavior under those circumstances

rick

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