Description of problem: The manpage for netdump is not available due to some kind of problem with either the iconv package or the netdump manpage file itself. When attempting to view the manpage for netdump I receive the following error: nbg01-shell-01{0}$ man netdump iconv: illegal input sequence at position 124 When attempting to directly process the manpage file a similar error occurs: nbg01-shell-01{0}$ gzip -dc /usr/share/man/man8/netdump.8.gz | nroff -man iconv: illegal input sequence at position 31 The version of netdump is the latest distributed: nbg01-shell-01{1}$ rpm -q netdump netdump-0.7.7-2 The installed RPM files are all verified as per the RPM (except the configuration file): nbg01-shell-01{0}$ rpm -V netdump S.5....T c /etc/sysconfig/netdump
Works for me: $ rpm -q netdump netdump-0.7.7-2 $ rpm -V netdump S.5....T c /etc/sysconfig/netdump $ man netdump NETDUMP-CLIENT(8) System Programs NETDUMP-CLIENT(8) NAME netdump - send oops data and memory dumps over the network SYNOPSIS /etc/init.d/netdump {start|stop|status|restart|propagate} DESCRIPTION Loads and configures the netdump kernel modules. Once these are loaded, when the kernel crashes it will send the oops message and a dump of physical memory to the machine that runs the netdump-server. This can then be used to debug the problem using gdb and a kernel image. ... $ gzip -dc /usr/share/man/man8/netdump.8.gz | nroff -man NETDUMP-CLIENT(8) System Programs NETDUMP-CLIENT(8) NAME netdump - send oops data and memory dumps over the network SYNOPSIS /etc/init.d/netdump {start|stop|status|restart|propagate} DESCRIPTION Loads and configures the netdump kernel modules. Once these are loaded, when the kernel crashes it will send the oops message and a dump of physical memory to the machine that runs the netdump-server. This can then be used to debug the problem using gdb and a kernel image. ... However, maybe I've got an old version of iconv: $ iconv --version iconv (GNU libc) 2.3.2 Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Written by Ulrich Drepper. $ What version are you running?
Running 0.7.7-2 Appears to work for root but not for my user account but does for other users ... seems to be something in my environment - I will investigate further. You can close this defect - do you want an update with outcome of environment investigation? Apologies for raising this too quickly.
Not a problem -- looking back, I see another similar report on an earlier version. I'm presuming the problem would also happen with the netdump-server man page as well, and maybe has something to do with the second line in each page: .\" -*-Nroff-*- .\" Copyright é 2002 Alexander Larsson <alexl> .\" That copyright character looks suspicious. If you were to remove it, does the problem go away?
Created attachment 115611 [details] patch file which removes the copyright character causing man page problems.
Well spotted looks like that's what's causing it - perhaps a problem with nroff rather than netdump? nbg01-shell-01{1}$ diff netdump.8 netdump.8.orig 2c2 < .\" Copyright 2002 Alexander Larsson <alexl> --- > .\" Copyright é 2002 Alexander Larsson <alexl> Previous exit value was: 1 nbg01-shell-01{1}$ nroff -man netdump.8.orig iconv: illegal input sequence at position 31 nbg01-shell-01{0}$ nroff -man netdump.8 NETDUMP-CLIENT(8) System Programs NETDUMP-CLIENT(8) NAME netdump - send oops data and memory dumps over the network
Ok fine -- I'll remove it for the next release... Thanks, Dave
*** Bug 124473 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2006-0037.html