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popen: Permission denied - error opening man page
- From: Balaji Venkataraman <balaji dot s dot venkataraman at gmail dot com>
- To: Cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 15:34:00 -0700
- Subject: popen: Permission denied - error opening man page
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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. Appreciate any
feedback/help.
Thanks!
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