https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=280613 werner@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |mfabian@novell.com Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |dpecka@suse.cz ------- Comment #1 from werner@novell.com 2007-06-04 11:01 MST ------- Can not reproduce this man --html=firefox man shows me the manual page of man within an firefox window with file:///tmp/hmanN2Jtlp/man.html. AFAIK this is an option which is provided by groff (the GNU troff) only, that means that `man' only uses groff to produce html and png files and calls afterwards the browser for displaying the result. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=280613 ------- Comment #3 from dpecka@novell.com 2007-06-05 03:48 MST ------- Created an attachment (id=144128) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=144128&action=view) problem info -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=280613 ------- Comment #5 from werner@novell.com 2007-06-05 04:44 MST ------- Which firefox you're using? IMHO this could also a bug of the firefox itsself. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=280613#c8 --- Comment #8 from Dr. Werner Fink 2007-07-18 05:50:54 MST --- IMHO you have executed in the first case man -H firefox man which fails because man has tried to execute /usr/bin/lynx. By using man -Hfirefox man or man --html=firefox man the problem in the first case of the attachment disappears. The reason is that there are two colons used after the Option `H' in the optstring argumwent of getopt_long(). Accordingly this is due (man getopt_long(3)): Two colons mean an option takes an optional arg; if there is text in the current argv-element, it is returned in optarg, otherwise optarg is set to zero. This is a GNU extension. ... To see this do simply bash> man -H firefox No source manual entry for firefox and bash> man -Hfirefox What manual page do you want? the question is: can you reproduce your problem with firefox 2.0.0.5 and the correct option usage e.g. -Hfirefox or --html=firefox? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=280613#c10 --- Comment #10 from Dr. Werner Fink 2007-07-18 06:50:02 MST --- The rest of the problem is simply a race: firefox does its job in the background, that is that the temporary files will be deleted before firefox has read them. I'll add some second to sleep after firefox is called by man. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.