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    Section 2 man pages missing

    Hi
    I am a fedora user for years now. I just installed fedora 12 x86_64 and loved it. It has added more features to it and it looks are great. but yesterday i just noticed that the section 2 man pages are missing from fedora 12. Guys is there any package that I have to install and I missed to install it and so it is not showing the man pages. I have installed all the standard development packages already and they all work fine. One example is the gettimeofday() function call, this works fine when I use it in my code. But unfortunately there are no man pages for it. Anybody have a ideas how to fix this problem or what package I have to install so that the section 2 man pages will be displayed. Thanks in advance.

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    Re: Section 2 man pages missing

    Hi
    The section 2 man pages which you are talking works perfect on my machine, I ma running Fedora 12 on x86_64. Here is the output of the
    Code:
    man pages.
    GETTIMEOFDAY(2)            Linux Programmer’s Manual           GETTIMEOFDAY(2)
    
    NAME
           gettimeofday, settimeofday - get / set time
    
    SYNOPSIS
           #include <sys/time.h>
    
           int gettimeofday(struct timeval *tv, struct timezone *tz);
    
           int settimeofday(const struct timeval *tv, const struct timezone *tz);
    
       Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):
    
           settimeofday(): _BSD_SOURCE
    
    DESCRIPTION
           The  functions  gettimeofday()  and  settimeofday() can get and set the
           time as well as a timezone.  The tv argument is a  struct  timeval  (as
           specified in <sys/time.h>):
    
               struct timeval {
                   time_t      tv_sec;     /* seconds */
    I think you have not installed the packages properly, that is why it is not displaying the man pages.

  3. #3
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    Re: Section 2 man pages missing

    Hello
    I think you have a missing or a corrupt package. I am also using Fedora 12 and i do not have such issues. Still, If you want do install the man pages package then just follow to the below posted.
    Code:
    man-pages-3.22-6.fc12.noarch : Man (manual) pages from the Linux Documentation
                                 : Project
    Repo        : installed
    Matched from:
    Other       : Provides-match: /usr/share/man/man2/gettimeofday.2.gz
    Any more problems do post back. I think this will definitely fix your problem, this is an simple issue and you can fix it easily.

  4. #4
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    Re: Section 2 man pages missing

    Hi
    I have recently upgraded my system to fedora 12. And I am also facing the same problems with the man pages. Platform is i686. Even after group installing the Development tools I am get such a message.
    Code:
    nachi@laptop ~]$ man gettimeofday
    No manual entry for gettimeofday
    Though now I have fixed the problem by just installing it.
    Code:
    "yum install man-pages"
    This is strange, I had never faced such problem before, that is I had to never install the man pages manually after my installation of the Fedora operating system. Forget it, might be a small mistake.

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