Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 117004
samba-common: smb.conf man page truncated
Last modified: 2014-08-31 19:25:54 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 Description of problem: smb.conf man page is truncated. The last paragraph seen is: --- The following sample section defines a file space share. The user has write access to the path /home/bar. The share is accessed via the share name ``foo'': Example --- And nothing more. And there should be a lot more, as can be seen in /usr/share/doc/samba-3.0.2/docs/htmldocs/smb.conf.5.html Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): samba-common-3.0.2-7.FC1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. man smb.conf 2. [End] Actual Results: Fragment of the man page seen, ending with: The following sample section defines a file space share. The user has write access to the path /home/bar. The share is accessed via the share name ``foo'': Example Expected Results: The whole man page seen, ending with: The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer. The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another excellent piece of Open Source software, available at ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/) and updated for the Samba 2.0 release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter. The conversion to DocBook XML 4.2 for Samba 3.0 was done by Alexander Bokovoy. Additional info: I use the following locale settings: LANG=en_US LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.iso88592 LC_COLLATE=pl_PL.iso88592 I also tried the settings: LANG=en_US LC_CTYPE=en-US.utf8 I didn't work either. Workaround: Use HTML documentation /usr/share/doc/samba-3.0.2/docs/htmldocs/smb.conf.5.html It is also possible that it is a man bug.
*** Bug 117051 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
It looks that it is caused by non-utf-8 locale settings: LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" man smb.conf - everything is fine LC_CTYPE="en_US" man smb.conf - man truncated
It looks like it is samba error. The man pages are supposed to be in UTF-8 encoding but it uses character 160 (non-break space in iso-8859-X encodings) on which chokes iconv, which is used in nroff script when locale is not set to utf-8.
Seems that this bug is corrected with errata packages - I can not reproduce this with samba-common-3.0.7-2.FC1 from FC1 updates nor with samba-common-3.0.8-0.pre1 from FC3test3. Please close this bug then.
It's fixed in 3.0.4-1.FC1 and later. I guess this bug slipped through the cracks.