From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice Subject: bug#30785: Man pages truncated, repeated Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 22:24:46 +0100 Message-ID: <4a0d5e493db8af05dd2292b854ad7d3d@tobias.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60032) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1evUxH-0000K2-02 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Mar 2018 17:26:03 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1evUxG-0002Vq-6x for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Mar 2018 17:26:02 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:49684) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1evUxG-0002Ve-2G for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Mar 2018 17:26:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1evUxF-00044m-Sz for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Mar 2018 17:26:01 -0400 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59793) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1evUwC-0008Uq-Di for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Mar 2018 17:24:57 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1evUwB-0001Tz-FJ for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Mar 2018 17:24:56 -0400 Received: from tobias.gr ([2001:470:cc92::1]:46520) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1evUwB-0001T3-2R for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Mar 2018 17:24:55 -0400 Received: by tobias.gr (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id e2109890 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2018 21:24:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by submission.tobias.gr (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id 95f2b60a (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:256:NO) for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2018 21:24:49 +0000 (UTC) List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: 30785@debbugs.gnu.org Guix, Perhaps he's just getting old, but our man has a tendency to forget where he was, start over from the beginning, and repeat himself several times: $ guix package -i knot rofi $ man 5 knot.conf | grep -E '^(NAME|DESCRIPTION)' NAME DESCRIPTION NAME DESCRIPTION NAME DESCRIPTION NAME DESCRIPTION NAME $ There's also some stderr... :25: error: end of file while defining macro `UNINDENT' ...but I think that's just a symptom of the input being cut short; man rofi(1) prints no such error yet suffers the same fate. The affected man pages themselves are not truncated, nor do they repeat: $ zgrep '\.SH' `man -w knot.conf` .SH NAME .SH DESCRIPTION .SH COMMENTS .SH INCLUDES .SH MODULE SECTION .SH SERVER SECTION .SH KEY SECTION .SH ACL SECTION .SH CONTROL SECTION .SH STATISTICS SECTION .SH KEYSTORE SECTION .SH SUBMISSION SECTION .SH POLICY SECTION .SH REMOTE SECTION .SH TEMPLATE SECTION .SH ZONE SECTION .SH LOGGING SECTION .SH AUTHOR .SH COPYRIGHT $ However, even longer man pages such as bash(1) render without fail, so there might be something special about the two examples above that triggers this behaviour. Kind regards, T G-R Sent from a Web browser. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.