F9: Man pages missing/broken?

[Michael Schwendt]

On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:37:59 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:

> Dan Thurman wrote:
> >
> > I tried to use the man pages but it seems that it is either
> > missing, broken, or not initialized?
> >
> >
> > Doing:
> > + Apropos grub
> >
> > shows a list of grub man pages available but:
> > + man grub
> > says it is missing.
> >
> > Doing:
> > + man man
> > says it is also missing
> >
> > What am I doing wrong? Do I have to reinitialize the
> > man pages database or something like I used to do in
> > ages past?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Dan
> >
> Ugh.  I guess it does not work as a su - or su -l root user.
> That is really odd. But a su works, just not with the - or
> -l option.

That's not normal.

What do you get for "strace man -k grub" and "strace man man"?