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Re: popen: Permission denied - error opening man page


On 10/24/2013 6:34 PM, Balaji Venkataraman wrote:
I completely wiped my Cygwin32 install and re-installed the bare
minimum set of packages. But I still can't get something as basic as
'man ls' to run from a non-admin mintty bash shell.

x86$ man ls
popen: Permission denied
Attempt [/usr/bin/gunzip -c /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz] to expand man
page failed
No manual entry for ls

I had the same symptom before I wiped my system. Things do work okay
with an Administrator shell. It also works fine in cygwin64 - both a
admin/non-admin shell.

I found this (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-05/msg00165.html) old
thread but don't think the same fix applies.

Perhaps not but it's worth checking your shells at least.

Appreciate any feedback/help.

I'd recommend sending a full problem report.

Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html

You can also try running the problematic command directly from a
DOS prompt with 'strace' to see if it uncovers anything suspect.


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