Public bug reported:
1) The version and edition of Linux Mint you are using (if you are not
sure, open a terminal and run "mintwelcome"). :
uname -a :
Linux mint 3.13.0-37-generic #64-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 22 21:28:38 UTC 2014
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
lsb_release -a :
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: LinuxMint
Description: Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca
Release: 17.1
Codename: rebecca
2) What you did for the problem to happen, and how to reproduce it.
Open a terminal and type "sudo catman" It's reproducible as it fails with the
same error everytime
3) What happened.
man: command exited with status 127: /usr/bin/zsoelim | /usr/lib/man-db/manconv
-f UTF-8:ISO-8859-1 -t ANSI_X3.4-1968//IGNORE | tbl | nroff -mandoc -Tascii |
iconv -c -f ANSI_X3.4-1968 -t UTF-8//TRANSLIT | gzip -c7
catman: man command failed with exit status 3
4) What you expected to happen instead.
catman should have rebuilt the database related to apropos and whatis without
failure
5) If the problem happened once, sometimes, or always.
Always.
** Affects: linuxmint
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Affects: man-db (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apropos catman database failed man man-db whatis
** Attachment added: "Package and system information generated using apport-cli
, apt-cache policy , apt-cache show , uname -a and lsb_release -a"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1443604/+attachment/4374282/+files/catman-bug.tar.bz2
** Also affects: man-db (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
"catman: man command failed with exit status 3" when updating apropos
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