Not able to view the man pages

[linuxfresher]

Hi,

Not able to view the man pages for the linux shell commands.

For ex: when I enter

# man printf

The following response was obtained

XXX
XXX WARNING: old character encoding and/or character set
XXX
(END)

I tried googling on this issue
with the string "WARNING: old character encoding and/or character set".The results were
not discussing a solution for this type of error.

Can you kindly provide me some tips on solving this problem??.

Linux distro: Fedora 5

linuxFresher

[mansoorpeerbhoy]

hello,

it looks to me as if you have permission problems on /usr/bin/iconv
to fix this, please run (as root):
# chmod ugo+x /usr/bin/iconv

or, if you are in sudoers,
$ sudo chmod ugo+x /usr/bin/iconv

i also ran into this same problem, and googled around just as you did, and landed on this post.

this fixed the problem, hope it helps

[arnuld_aqua]

I have the same issue but doing a chmod does not help. BTW, I am using CentOS 4.6 for which there is no iconv or libiconv available. So I have compiled on my own installed in /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/lib and both are in PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH

[lugoteehalt]

Just as an experiment try:

$ locate man/man

Then pick one of the results and do:

$ man /path/man/man/..... What happens?

[arnuld_aqua]

well:

[root@dune ~]# man /usr/share/man/man8/grub.8.gz

gives same error..

[raseeler]

Delete the file named "XXX" in your home directory .

[arnuld_aqua]

Delete the file named "XXX" in your home directory

There is no directory named XXX. Are you sure what you are talking about ?

[raseeler]

There is no directory named XXX. Are you sure what you are talking about ?

Ooops......sorry tht was not the solution...tht file was created wen i was tryting to solve th issue...still not able to figure out wats th solution

[lugoteehalt]

Is the MANPATH environment variable set?

$ export MANPATH=/path:/path1/etc..

[arnuld_aqua]

Yes, MANPATH variable is set in /etc/profile.