[Bug 1389682] Re: man command failed with exit status 3

[Neal McBurnett]

The symptom I see on Ubuntu 18.04 is running

 $ man -H man

and getting

man: command exited with status 3: (cd /tmp/hman6RgU0i && /usr/lib/man-db/zsoelim) | (cd /tmp/hman6RgU0i && /usr/lib/man-db/manconv -f UTF-8:ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8//IGNORE) | (cd /
tmp/hman6RgU0i && preconv -e UTF-8) | (cd /tmp/hman6RgU0i && tbl) | (cd /tmp/hman6RgU0i && groff -mandoc -Thtml)


As described by https://askubuntu.com/users/8698/dan at
manpage - How do I make man pages open in a web browser? - Ask Ubuntu
 https://askubuntu.com/questions/339255/how-do-i-make-man-pages-open-in-a-web-browser

a workaround for this bug is to install the groff command.

The man command should be fixed to discover this and print a suitable
error.

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Title:
  man command failed with exit status 3

Status in man-db:
  New
Status in man-db package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Whenever I run the command catman I get the following message:

  command exited with status 127: /usr/lib/man-db/zsoelim | /usr/lib/man-db/manconv -f UTF-8:ISO-8859-1 -t ANSI_X3.4-1968//IGNORE | tbl | nroff -mandoc -Tascii | iconv -c -f ANSI_X3.4-1968 -t UTF-8//TRANSLIT | gzip -c7
  catman: man command failed with exit status 3

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
  Package: man-db 2.7.0.2-2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-24.32-generic 3.16.4
  Uname: Linux 3.16.0-24-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Nov  5 15:53:43 2014
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-03-15 (234 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1)
  SourcePackage: man-db
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2014-10-25 (10 days ago)

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