Description of Problem: when using man, it complains about gzip and grotty as shown below when run from an xterm or gnome-terminal and a user account. and from the console it shows bizaare characters on user accounts. it seems to work fine for root. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How Reproducible: every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. in an xterm or gnome, use a user account with tcsh and get the output below Actual Results: the man page shows up as normal, but when you press 'q' to quit, the following error messages are visable [mkrisch@random ~]$ man man gunzip: stdout: Broken pipe gunzip: stdout: Broken pipe grotty:<standard input>:4220:fatal error: output error Expected Results: Additional Information:
Don't mean to add chatter to the bug, but I'm experiencing the same problem, though not with the requirements set. Recieve the same error in both bash and tcsh, but only when running gnome-terminal (not xterm). Like the above bug, this only seems to occur for user accounts: when using an instance of gnome-terminal running as root, I can't reproduce the problem. My install is a standard RH8, to reproduce: 1. Open a gnome-terminal session as a non-root user (bash or tcsh shell). 2. Type "man find" 3. Quit the manual page to see the output: ---- gunzip: stdout: Broken pipe gunzip: stdout: Broken pipe grotty:<standard input>:6110:fatal error: output error ---- The problem is reproducable for many man pages. The numbers in the fatal error message vary by man page ("man man" will produce the number 4182, "man ls" produces 2185). Some manual pages do not seem to produce the error, for example "man test" and "man help". This may be related to a problem I'm having trying to display man pages from within the screen program. Screen doesn't seem to be translating output correctly, though the terminal settings are correct. The same setup was fine for RH7.X. If anyone's run into anything like this, I'd be much obliged for a bug reference. If I can provide anything more which may be helpful, please let me know. Thanks much.
I too have encountered these error messages when displaying man pages in gnome-terminal with tcsh. However, this is only one of two problems that I encounter with the man pages. I also see "funny characters" when I view the man pages. I seem to get one or both of these problems whenever I view a man page. I am not sure under which conditions each happens. These problems occur on two very different (hardware-wise) IA32 systems, both with fresh installs of RedHat 8.0 plus the latest updates via up2date. I am relatively new to bugzilla and the bug-tracking community, so please let me know what other information I need to provide.
I just realised that the "funny characters" occur when I'm using screen. When I use screen, I do not see the errors regarding gunzip and grotty. When I am not using screen, the pages look okay, but I get the gunzip/grotty errors.
fixed with the latest ncurses (funny chars) and groff updates.