harsha <harshu@hd2.vsnl.net.in> wrote:
> all of a sudden i can't view the man pages.
>
>man man
>man: can't set the effective uid: Operation not permitted.
>
>even when i work as the root it is the same problem.
What version of the man-db package do you have? ('dpkg -l man-db') When
you say "all of a sudden", does this mean you recently upgraded it? What
does 'ls -l /usr/bin/man /usr/lib/man-db/man' say?
Thanks,
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Colin Watson [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]