Yup give me a sec 
I’ll back
TL:DR
man-db is presumably broken man-db.x86_64 to be precise and exact
manconv and zsoelim is missing.
also
nroff -mandoc -rLL=79n -rLT=79n -Tutf8 ^Ccat: /tmp/man.ULzSuE: file not found preconv: error: encoding system 'ISO-8859-2' not supported grotty:<standard input>:(<standard input>):6: fatal error: 'V' command invalid before first 'p' command
Reinstallation of man-db.x86_64 usless, does nothing
Sorry for the bit messy post but i checked stuff on the fly
You can read the rest of this mess if you want to, yet it is mess
kuba@kuba:~$
LC_ALL=C sudo /usr/libexec/man-db/zsoelim
[sudo] password for kuba:
sudo: /usr/libexec/man-db/zsoelim: command not found
kuba@kuba:~$ /usr/libexec/man-db/zsoelim
bash: /usr/libexec/man-db/zsoelim: not found
kuba@kuba:~$ ls -a /usr/libexec/man-db/zsoelim
ls: nie ma dostępu do '/usr/libexec/man-db/zsoelim': not found
kuba@kuba:~$
Done this with and without LC_ALL=C also use ls just to be sure if im dealing with catalogue
kuba@kuba:~$ LC_ALL=C /usr/libexec/man-db/manconv -f UTF-8: ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8//IGNORE
^X^C
kuba@kuba:~$ LC_ALL=C /usr/libexec/man-db/manconv
manconv: must specify an output encoding
Try 'manconv --help' or 'manconv --usage' for more information.
kuba@kuba:~$ manconv --help
bash: manconv: command not found
kuba@kuba:~$ LC_ALL=C manconv --help
bash: manconv: command not found
kuba@kuba: ~$ LC_ALL=C sudo manconv --help
sudo: manconv: command not found
kuba@kuba:~$ whereis manconv
^C <-- returns noting
kuba@kuba:~$ ls -a /usr/libexec/man-db/
. . globbing manconv
kuba@kuba:~$ ls -a /usr/libexec/man-db/manconv
/usr/libexec/man-db/manconv
kuba@kuba:~$
bash: manconv: command not found
so ls -la -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14000 wrz 6 2024 /usr/libexec/man-db/manconv
whereis preconv
preconv: /usr/bin/preconv /usr/share/man/man1/preconv.1.zst
preconv --help
usage: preconv [-dr] [-D fallback-encoding] [-e encoding] [file ...]
usage: preconv {-v | --version}
usage: preconv {-h | --help}
Read each file, convert its encoded characters to a form GNU troff(1)
can interpret, and send the result to the standard output stream.
The default fallback encoding is 'UTF-8'. See the preconv(1) manual page.
whereis tbl
tbl: /usr/bin/tbl /usr/share/man/man1/tbl.1.zst
kuba@kuba:~$ tbl --help
usage: tbl [-C] [file ...]
usage: tbl {-v | --version}
usage: tbl --help
kuba@kuba:~$
generaly works
whereis nroff
nroff: /usr/bin/nroff /usr/share/man/man1/nroff.1.zst
kuba@kuba:~$ nroff --help
usage: /usr/bin/nroff [-bcCEhikpRStUVz] [-d ctext] [-d string=text] [-K fallback-encoding] [-m macro-package] [-M macro-directory] [-n page-number] [-o page-list] [-P postprocessor-argument] [-r cnumeric-expression] [-r register=numeric-expression] [-T output-device] [-w warning-category] [-W warning-category] [file ...]
usage: /usr/bin/nroff {-v | --version}
usage: /usr/bin/nroff --help
sudo /usr/bin/nroff /home/kuba/Pulpit/dummy | more
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also works like presumably others that return any output when --help switch is added
manconv and zsoelim is missing.
The manconv command is part of the man-db package
and LC_ALL=C dnf list man-db Last metadata expiration check: 5:08:57 ago on Mon Apr 28 17:08:26 2025. Installed Packages man-db.x86_64 2.13.0-1 @release-x86_64 kuba@kuba:~$
Reinstallation of man-db.x86_64 usless, does nothing
Sorry for the bit messy post but i checked stuff on the fly
ma bad
