bug#5347: marked as done (23.1; M-x man: misreports absent man(1) as absent manpage.)

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absent manpage.
has caused the Emacs bug report #5347,
regarding 23.1; M-x man: misreports absent man(1) as absent manpage.
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> 23.1; M-x man: misreports absent man(1) as absent manpage.
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> Sat, 09 Jan 2010 04:14:38 -0800 (PST)
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> On my system, man(1) is not present, but a manpage was.  M-x man RET
> pastebinint RET claimed that the manPAGE was missing, when actually
> man(1) is what was missing.  M-x woman RET pastebinint RET works.
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> In GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu)
>  of 2009-11-02 on raven, modified by Debian
> configured using `configure  '--build=i486-linux-gnu' '--host=i486-linux-gnu' 
> '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' 
> '--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' 
> '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes' 
> '--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs23:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/23.1/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.1/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.1/leim'
>  '--with-x=no' 'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 
> 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -g -O2' 'LDFLAGS=-g' 'CPPFLAGS=''
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> Important settings:
>   value of $LC_ALL: nil
>   value of $LC_COLLATE: C
>   value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
>   value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
>   value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
>   value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
>   value of $LC_TIME: nil
>   value of $LANG: en_AU.utf8
>   value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
>   locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
>   default-enable-multibyte-characters: t
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> Major mode: Fundamental
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> Minor modes in effect:
>   shell-dirtrack-mode: t
>   rcirc-track-minor-mode: t
>   xterm-mouse-mode: t
>   savehist-mode: t
>   icomplete-mode: t
>   partial-completion-mode: t
>   show-paren-mode: t
>   delete-selection-mode: t
>   file-name-shadow-mode: t
>   global-font-lock-mode: t
>   font-lock-mode: t
>   global-auto-composition-mode: t
>   auto-composition-mode: t
>   auto-encryption-mode: t
>   auto-compression-mode: t
>   column-number-mode: t
>   line-number-mode: t
>   transient-mark-mode: t
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> Recent input:
> SPC t o SPC d a r c s . c a b a l SPC t o SPC f i x 
> SPC t h a t , DEL RET C-x ESC O A C-c C-@ a p t - g 
> e t SPC s o u r c e SPC d o e s n ' t SPC n e e d SPC 
> t o o SPC DEL DEL DEL DEL r o o t RET ESC a C-u C-c 
> C-@ E a c h SPC v l a n SPC a p p e a r s SPC a s SPC 
> a SPC s e p a r a t e SPC i n t e r f a c e ESC b ESC 
> b ESC b ESC b ESC b ESC b ESC d t a g g e d SPC i n 
> t e r f a c e RET ESC a C-x ESC O B I SPC g e t SPC 
> t h e SPC s a m e SPC p r o b l e m SPC w i t h SPC 
> H E A D , SPC c h e c k i n g SPC - h s SPC n o w RET 
> ESC [ 5 ~ ESC > C-c C-@ ESC x m a n RET p a s t e b 
> i n i t RET ESC x C-g ESC x w o m a n RET ESC O A RET 
> C-x ESC O A ESC x m a n RET ESC O A RET C-h e C-@ ESC 
> O A ESC O A ESC O A ESC w ESC > ESC x r e p o r t SPC 
> e m a c s SPC b u g RET
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> Recent messages:
> Building list of manual directory expansions...
> Building completion list of all manual topics...
> uncompressing pastebinit.1.gz...done
> WoMan formatting buffer...done in 0 seconds
> Invoking man pastebinit in the background
> Please wait: formatting the pastebinit man page...
> pastebinit man page formatted
> error in process sentinel: Man-bgproc-sentinel: Can't find the pastebinit 
> manpage
> error in process sentinel: Can't find the pastebinit manpage
> Mark set [2 times]
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> Re: bug#5347: 23.1;	M-x man: misreports absent man(1) as absent manpage.
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> Date: 
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> Sun, 10 Jan 2010 06:05:28 +0200
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> > Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:05:39 +1100
> > From: "Trent W. Buck" <trentbuck@gmail.com>
> > Cc: 5347@debbugs.gnu.org
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> > reopen 5347
> > thanks
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> > Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > >> On my system, man(1) is not present, but a manpage was.  M-x man
> > >> RET pastebinint RET claimed that the manPAGE was missing, when
> > >> actually man(1) is what was missing.  M-x woman RET pastebinint RET
> > >> works.
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> > > "M-x man" works by invoking man(1), so it cannot work without one
> > > installed.  "M-x woman" (WO == without) does not need man(1),
> > > therefore it still works.
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> > I realize that.  This issue is because M-x man RET foo RET reports
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> >     error in process sentinel: Can't find the foo manpage
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> > but it should report something like
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> >     error in process sentinel: Can't find man(1)
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> It cannot know.
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