Thanks Lawrence

Ran man -u, but same result:
root@ROOTCA:~/ca# man -u
root@ROOTCA:~/ca#

mandb -c (to recreate the databases) LOOKED good, but:
71 man subdirectories contained newer manual pages.
2904 manual pages were added.
0 stray cats were added.
root@ROOTCA:~/ca# man ca
root@ROOTCA:~/ca# man
root@ROOTCA:~/ca# man -u

Ran mandb -t (to "check manual pages for correctness"); it took a few seconds, but eventually returned to the prompt and nothing changed.

It's quite curious, and it's decidedly difficult to Google for!

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13. Jul 2016 11:41 by ldo@geek-central.gen.nz:

On Wed, 13 Jul 2016 00:00:01 +0100 (BST), Eric Light wrote:
When I execute man, it doesn't give me
anything, and just returns me to the command prompt.  Not even man
--help will return a response. I've purged and reinstalled man-db,
ensured that ncurses-base is installed, even checked the size of man
(106912 bytes), and checked dmesg for any segfaults... there's just
nothing I can find anywhere.

According to the man(1) man page, ���man -u��� will do a cache consistency
check. Worth a try?

You could also try invoking mandb directly.
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