wrong man page

[Andrea C G Mennucci]

hi

the man page that I get by

# man qemu-system-arm

is the same as the man page

# man qemu-system-i386

and both starts with

> SYNOPSIS
> qemu-system-i386 [options] [disk_image]

so it seems that the man page for qemu-system-arm is missing ; this is not good, e.g. the explanation of the cmdline switch -machine for i386 is unusable for arm

thanks
a.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: qemu-system-arm 1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.36
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-77.86~18.04.1-generic 5.4.119
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-77-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.24
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jul 7 11:52:33 2021
DistributionChannelDescriptor:
 # This is the distribution channel descriptor for the OEM CDs
 # For more information see http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistributionChannelDescriptor
 canonical-oem-somerville-bionic-amd64-20180608-47+beaver-three-eyed-raven+X92
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-04-22 (441 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 "Bionic" - Build amd64 LIVE Binary 20180608-09:38
KvmCmdLine: COMMAND STAT EUID RUID PID PPID %CPU COMMAND
MachineType: Dell Inc. XPS 13 7390
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.4.0-77-generic root=UUID=cd6fd133-3c8f-4d29-b638-d7c47203ab54 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=1
SourcePackage: qemu
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 02/04/2021
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 1.8.0
dmi.board.name: 0G2D0W
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A00
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvr1.8.0:bd02/04/2021:svnDellInc.:pnXPS137390:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0G2D0W:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct10:cvr:
dmi.product.family: XPS
dmi.product.name: XPS 13 7390
dmi.product.sku: 0962
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

[Paride Legovini (paride)]

Hello Andrea and thanks for this bug report. A similar bug has been filed in Debian back in 2013:

  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=714275

and tagged as wontfix. AIUI the problem is that arch-specific manpages do not exist for all the archs, and the qemu-system-ARCH manpages basically provide usage examples using i386 (and, in newer releases, x86_64). This is unlikely to be fixed in Ubuntu.