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UPDATE:

I fixed it OK by removing/deleting the "/var/cache/man" folder Then all things is OK now. (The system will recreate the "/var/cache/man" folder automatically.


Every time I install or remove a pack, in terminal windows show errors as below:

What is problem, and how can I fix it.

I install packs by the command:

sudo apt-get install packname

The packs were installed on OS and run normally, Until now, I have not found abnormal yet when I launch the installed packs. But, the errors as above are always showed every time I install new packs.

This is the terminal situation

sudo apt install vlc
Reading package lists... Done
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Reading state information... Done
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/usr/bin/mandb: fopen /var/cache/man/pt/4065: Permission denied
/usr/bin/mandb: fopen /var/cache/man/eu/4065: Permission denied
/usr/bin/mandb: can't chmod /var/cache/man/tr/CACHEDIR.TAG: Operation not permitted
/usr/bin/mandb: can't remove /var/cache/man/tr/CACHEDIR.TAG: Permission denied
/usr/bin/mandb: fopen /var/cache/man/tr/4065: Permission denied
/usr/bin/mandb: fopen /var/cache/man/el/4065: Permission denied
/usr/bin/mandb: fopen /var/cache/man/sk/4065: Permission denied
/usr/bin/mandb: fopen /var/cache/man/ca/4065: Permission denied
/usr/bin/mandb: fopen /var/cache/man/lt/4065: Permission denied
/usr/bin/mandb: can't chmod /var/cache/man/fi/CACHEDIR.TAG: Operation not permitted
/usr/bin/mandb: can't remove /var/cache/man/fi/CACHEDIR.TAG: Permission denied
/usr/bin/mandb: fopen /var/cache/man/fi/4065: Permission denied
/usr/bin/mandb: fopen /var/cache/man/vi/4065: Permission denied
/usr/bin/mandb: can't chmod /var/cache/man/cs/CACHEDIR.TAG: Operation not permitted
/usr/bin/mandb: can't remove /var/cache/man/cs/CACHEDIR.TAG: Permission denied
/usr/bin/mandb: fopen /var/cache/man/cs/4065: Permission denied
/usr/bin/mandb: can't chmod /var/cache/man/fr/CACHEDIR.TAG: Operation not permitted
/usr/bin/mandb: can't remove /var/cache/man/fr/CACHEDIR.TAG: Permission denied
/usr/bin/mandb: fopen /var/cache/man/fr/4065: Permission denied
/usr/bin/mandb: fopen /var/cache/man/nb/4065: Permission denied
/usr/bin/mandb: fopen /var/cache/man/et/4065: Permission denied
/usr/bin/mandb: fopen /var/cache/man/uk/4065: Permission denied
Setting up vlc-plugin-visualization:amd64 (2.2.6-6) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu5) ...
Setting up libsdl-image1.2:amd64 (1.2.12-6) ...
Setting up libmad0:amd64 (0.15.1b-8ubuntu1) ...
Setting up vlc-plugin-notify:amd64 (2.2.6-6) ...
Setting up libresid-builder0c2a (2.1.1-15ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libsidplay2 (2.1.1-15ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libdca0:amd64 (0.0.5-10) ...
Setting up libsndio6.1:amd64 (1.1.0-3) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-1) ...
Setting up libopenmpt-modplug1:amd64 (0.2.8760~beta27-1) ...
Setting up libvcdinfo0 (0.7.24+dfsg-0.2) ...
Setting up libmatroska6v5:amd64 (1.4.7-2) ...
Setting up libvlc5:amd64 (2.2.6-6) ...
Setting up vlc-plugin-samba:amd64 (2.2.6-6) ...
Setting up libvlc-bin:amd64 (2.2.6-6) ...
Setting up vlc-plugin-base:amd64 (2.2.6-6) ...
Setting up vlc-bin (2.2.6-6) ...
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@dedunumax: This is the output of ls -lha /var/cache/man/

ls -lha /var/cache/man/
total 1.1M
drwxr-xr-x 53 man  man  4.0K Mar 23 10:48 .
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4.0K Mar 18 21:09 ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Mar 17 22:07 ar
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Mar 17 22:07 bg
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Mar 17 22:07 ca
-rw-r--r--  1 man  man   190 Mar 19 13:28 CACHEDIR.TAG
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Oct 19 01:37 cat1
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Oct 19 01:37 cat2
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Oct 19 01:37 cat3
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Oct 19 01:37 cat4
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Oct 19 01:37 cat5
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Oct 19 01:37 cat6
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Oct 19 01:37 cat7
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Oct 19 01:37 cat8
drwxr-xr-x  6 root root 4.0K Mar 18 21:09 cs
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root 4.0K Mar 18 21:09 da
drwxr-xr-x  7 root root 4.0K Mar 18 21:09 de
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Mar 17 22:07 el
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root 4.0K Mar 18 21:09 es
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Mar 17 22:07 et
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Mar 17 22:07 eu
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Mar 17 22:07 fa
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4.0K Mar 18 21:09 fi
drwxr-xr-x  6 root root 4.0K Mar 18 21:09 fr
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4.0K Mar 18 21:09 fr.ISO8859-1
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4.0K Mar 18 21:09 fr.UTF-8
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Mar 17 22:07 gl
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Mar 17 22:07 he
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Mar 17 22:07 hr
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root 4.0K Mar 18 21:09 hu
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root 4.0K Mar 18 21:09 id
-rw-r--r--  1 man  man  857K Mar 23 10:48 index.db
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Mar 17 22:07 is
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root 4.0K Mar 18 21:09 it
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root 4.0K Mar 18 21:09 ja
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root 4.0K Mar 18 21:09 ko
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Mar 17 22:07 lt
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Mar 17 22:07 lv
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Mar 17 22:07 ms
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Mar 17 22:07 nb
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root 4.0K Mar 18 21:09 nl
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root 4.0K Mar 18 21:09 pl
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root 4.0K Mar 18 21:09 pt
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root 4.0K Mar 18 21:09 pt_BR
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Mar 17 22:07 ro
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root 4.0K Mar 18 21:09 ru
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Mar 17 22:07 sk
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4.0K Mar 18 21:09 sl
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Mar 17 22:07 sr
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root 4.0K Mar 18 21:09 sv
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root 4.0K Mar 18 21:09 tr
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Mar 17 22:07 uk
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Mar 17 22:07 vi
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root 4.0K Mar 18 21:09 zh_CN
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root 4.0K Mar 18 21:09 zh_TW

@muru: This is the output of namei -lx /var/cache/man/da/CACHEDIR.TAG

    namei -lx /var/cache/man/da/CACHEDIR.TAG
f: /var/cache/man/da/CACHEDIR.TAG
Drwxr-xr-x root root /
Drwxr-xr-x root root var
drwxr-xr-x root root cache
drwxr-xr-x man  man  man
drwxr-xr-x root root da
-rw-r--r-- root root CACHEDIR.TAG

This is the output of df /var/cache/man/da/

df /var/cache/man/da/
Filesystem     1K-blocks    Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1       59340932 9911984  46384804  18% /var
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  • 4
    Please copy and paste the text from terminal windows, rather than posting a screen shot! Can you append your question to include the command that you used to create the display above? Mar 22, 2018 at 14:24
  • 2
    What is the output of ls -lha /var/cache/man/
    – dedunu
    Mar 22, 2018 at 14:56
  • Add the output of namei -lx /var/cache/man/da/CACHEDIR.TAG and df /var/cache/man/da/, please.
    – muru
    Mar 23, 2018 at 3:58
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    Your permissions are messed up. This is how it looks on my system: paste.ubuntu.com/p/4KT97BdPzS - all directories owned by man:root and setgid. Did you recursively chown /var?
    – muru
    Mar 23, 2018 at 4:30
  • I don't know why, I only have a action is I moved then mounting /var folder to other partition. so, how do i fix it now please.
    – joeubuntu
    Mar 23, 2018 at 5:15

1 Answer 1

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You need to set owner of directory /var/cache/man/ to usr man. This is the command:

chown -R man: /var/cache/man/

and for security set the permission 755 (owner RWX, group RX, other RX) to all directories:

chmod -R 755 /var/cache/man/

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