Problem with zcat uncompressing man pages
Ulrich Spörlein
uqs at FreeBSD.org
Wed Sep 26 17:03:02 UTC 2012
On Tue, 2012-09-25 at 12:58:01 +0100, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote:
> Hi
>
> When I read 'certain' -- not all -- man pages zcat writes a small error to stderr when opening the man page; however, the man page does actually open. The message i get on the terminal is:
>
> zcat: error writing to output: Broken pipe
> zcat: /usr/local/man/man5/muttrc.5.gz: uncompress failed
>
> When closing the man page, another message is shown on stderr:
>
> grotty:<standard input> (<standard input>):54131:fatal error: output error
>
>
> Would anyone here know the possible cause and fix for this issue?
Well, what is /usr/local/man/man5/muttrc.5.gz?
ls -l /usr/local/man/man5/muttrc.5.gz
file /usr/local/man/man5/muttrc.5.gz
zcat /usr/local/man/man5/muttrc.5.gz | head -5
xxd /usr/local/man/man5/muttrc.5.gz | head
It looks like you simple have a garbled manpage, and the catpage is
displayed instead.
Cheers
Uli
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