Description of problem: Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. man ls 2. [ hit space a few time ] 3. Bang! session hangs Actual results: may see some strange characters on screen at point of hang Expected results: should just work! Additional info: # uname -a Linux neo.scalix.local 2.4.22-1.2135.nptl #1 Mon Dec 15 15:46:09 EST 2003 i586 i586 i386 GNU/Linux # rpm -qa kernel-2.4.22-1.2135.nptl setup-2.5.27-1.1 tzdata-2003d-1 bzip2-libs-1.0.2-10 elfutils-libelf-0.89-2 glib-1.2.10-11 libattr-2.4.1-2 gmp-4.1.2-9 mktemp-1.5.1-1 lvm-1.0.3-13 less-378-11.1 psmisc-21.3-2.RHEL.0 shadow-utils-4.0.3-12 hotplug-2003_08_05-1 file-4.02-2 ed-0.2-34 gzip-1.3.3-11 rhpl-0.121-1 pam-0.77-15 SysVinit-2.85-5 vim-common-6.2.121-1 cyrus-sasl-2.1.15-6 libuser-0.51.7-2 kbd-1.08-11 rmt-0.4b34-1 dosfstools-2.8-11 hesiod-3.0.2-27 attr-2.4.1-2 mailx-8.1.1-31.1 mt-st-0.7-12.1 pax-3.0-7 fbset-2.1-14 rdate-1.3-3 lockdev-1.0.1-1.3 slocate-2.6-10 talk-0.17-21 traceroute-1.4a12-20.1 zip-2.3-18 libgcj-3.3.2-1 man-1.5k-12 nano-1.2.1-3 pam_krb5-2.0.4-1 python-optik-1.4.1-1 stunnel-4.04-6 tcsh-6.12-5 acpid-1.0.2-5 dhclient-3.0pl2-6.16 libpcap-0.7.2-7.1 nss_ldap-207-3 pciutils-2.1.10-8 redhat-config-securitylevel-tui-1.2.11-1 up2date-4.1.16-1 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Unable to reproduce this bug with the instructions given on any Fedora machine I have access to. Scrolling with the pager works as expected. And if there is a problem with this person's machine, the bug should be filed under the component 'less', the pager for man, not man itself, because that's what's displaying the man page and taking his spacebar input.
The same crash happens with ... man -P more ls man -P cat ls That would suggest it is not a pager issue, but something about man is going nutty. I noticed this after up2dating the system, though I don't recall whether this was an issue before up2dating. Note, the system is an older pentium system - which means its running a more 'basic' kernel, yes?
Thanks for the info. Unfortunately, I'm still not able to reproduce this bug using the instructions given on any of the Fedora machines in house. They work. The only thing I can think of is: 1) are you running in an unusual (defined as non-UTF-8) locale? ("locale" at the command line returning an Eastern Europe [ISO-8859-2] etc). 2) have you attempted to change your encoding charset from the supported UTF-8 to something not/no longer supported (ISO-8859-1 aka Latin-1, ISO-8859-15, etc) P.S. We don't need a dump of every RPM on the system-- simply put the version of man in the "Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable)" section and perhaps the version of the pager and any components that man touches (gotten through ldd). I appreciate the attempt at thoroughness, but it's a little overkill. ;)