Bug 101243
| Summary: | man xrandr produces error | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Scott R. Godin <rhbugzilla> |
| Component: | XFree86 | Assignee: | Mike A. Harris <mharris> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | 4.3.0-63 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2004-03-05 09:43:24 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Fixed in 4.3.0-63, along with the xcursorgen manpage. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.7 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20030131 Description of problem: attempting to view the manpage for xrandr produces an error and no manpage I'm not 100% certain whether the error is in the manpage file itself (/usr/X11R6/man/man1/xrandr.1x.gz), or in the implementation of troff/iconv for RHL 9. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): XFree86-4.3.0-2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. man xrandr Actual Results: 8:47am {5} pcp01501167pcs:/home/webdragon>$ man xrandr iconv: illegal input sequence at position 120 *much headscratching* additional attempts also produce: 8:55am {3} pcp01501167pcs:/home/webdragon>$ man xrandr iconv: illegal input sequence at position 121 Expected Results: normal display of manpage Additional info: This works: (zcat /usr/X11R6/man/man1/xrandr.1x.gz | groff -Tutf8 -man | less) and this as well (zcat /usr/X11R6/man/man1/xrandr.1x.gz | groff -Thtml -man | w3m -T text/html)