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  1. Bug #1001189
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 1001189

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Nathan Stratton Treadway (nathanst) wrote : Re: [Bug 1001189] Re: 'man' command fails with lseek error

On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 16:47:21 -0000, Paul Crawford wrote:
> One thing I noticed that is different is $PATH but I expected that to be
> the search order for programs, not for mand pages and/or index.db files!

Actually, I see that man-db does do some mapping between $PATH and the
man-page directory trees...

What are the $PATHs for your "opr" and a no-error account on the Precise
machine? Is $PATH for "opr" on your Lucid machine the same as on the
Precise machine?

Do you have any idea how the /package/local/share/man/index.db file was
originally generated? (Could it have been generated on some non-Linux
system, for example.)

      Nathan