F9: Man pages missing/broken?

[Dan Thurman]

Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Dan Thurman wrote:
>   
>> I tried to use the man pages but it seems that it is either
>> missing, broken, or not initialized?
>>
>>
>> Doing:
>> + Apropos grub
>>
>> shows a list of grub man pages available but:
>> + man grub
>> says it is missing.
>>
>> Doing:
>> + man man
>> says it is also missing
>>
>> What am I doing wrong? Do I have to reinitialize the
>> man pages database or something like I used to do in
>> ages past?
>>     
>
> Have you set some variable like MANPATH that prevents man from finding
> man pages?  I would doubt that you have managed to remove all of your
> man pages at once.  You can verify the grub package using rpm:
>
> rpm -V grub
>
> If it returns nothing, then the package contents are installed
> correctly, with the man page at /usr/share/man/man8/grub.8.gz
>   
It returns nothing.  Did you get my latest posting saying that this
problem occurs if you are doing this as a su - or su -l user.  Otherwise
it is fine.

Dan