Bug#404757: xbase-clients: [xman] (powerpc/sparc) Fails to start
On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 01:32:34 +0100, Frederic Daniel Luc Lehobey wrote:
> Package: xbase-clients
> Version: 1:7.1.ds-3
> Severity: important
>
> Hi,
>
> xman fails to start on powerpc and sparc architectures while working
> on i386. It seems clearly to be an endianness issue.
>
I can confirm that on sparc. Actually, it isn't an endianness issue :)
xman tries at build time to find the path to the manpages, and if
/etc/manpath.config doesn't exist (which is the case on buildds) it'll
fall back to a value which doesn't seem to work on linux.
Looking at your strace output, it seems to only look in /usr/man.
> The error message is:
>
> $ xman
> Xman Error: No manual pages found.
>
> PS: probably unrelated but xmore segfaults everywhere (powerpc, i386
> and sparc -- the latter saying bus error).
>
This is already reported, #365292.
Thanks for your report.
Cheers,
Julien
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