Friday, January 01, 2021

Apparmor and empty man pages on old kernels

 On my odroid HC4, the kernel is the stock 4.9.x from hardkernel.  I haven't gotten around to switching to mainline since I do like petitboot and don't want to have the little box connected to a monitor while figuring things out.  It does work as-is, just with some small issues.

For instance, man doesn't render man pages. 

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/man-db/+bug/1778684

The workaround is to disable apparmor for /usr/bin/man.  I should just upgrade the kernel, really.  But for now:

apt install apparmor-utils
aa-disable /usr/bin/man

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