Found the problem! Turns out it was an errant apparmor profile. Fixed by running:
# aa-complain /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.man
My next step is finding out why apparmor isn't doing any logging...
Thanks all; Lawrence in particular. :)
E
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Securely sent with Tutanota. It's good, you should try it:
https://tutanota.com13. 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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