Is your home directory on NFS? I am getting the exact same issue. Output of dmesg:
``` [4399566.994763] audit: type=1400 audit(1537967487.910:1582): apparmor="DENIED" operation="sendmsg" profile="/usr/bin/man" pid=5981 comm="man" laddr=<redacted> lport=744 faddr=<redacted> fport=2049 family="inet" sock_type="stream" protocol=6 requested_mask="send" denied_mask="send" [4399566.995173] nfs: RPC call returned error 13 Looks like an AppArmor config issue. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1773223 Title: man -l local-file fails with Access Denied To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/man-db/+bug/1773223/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
