seems like man -k is doing about nothing and has nothing in the database.
How can I fix this?
Are man-pages and man-db installed?
[www3 ~]# pacman -Ss man-db
system/man-db 2.7.6.1-2 (base) [installed]
A utility for reading man pages
yeah, it iust seems like a broken package
www3 ~]# man -k vim
vim: nothing appropriate.
this is not something I really want to dig in an fix, either. I've tacked init.d scrips, pam settings auth, root access, vim settings, networking without Network Manager, and I still have Xorg to go. Man pages have worked since slackware .
Please try running
sudo mandb
excellent! learn something new every day