From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 11 13:03:04 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F277216A4CE for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 13:03:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from forrie.com (forrie.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.156.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B9BE43FEA for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 13:03:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from forrie@forrie.com) Received: from dell.forrie.com (wks.forrie.net. [192.168.1.21]) by forrie.com with ESMTP id hABL2lJ6052605; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 16:02:48 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from forrie@forrie.com) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20031111160157.01b15cd8@192.168.1.1> X-Sender: forrie@192.168.1.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 16:02:47 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Larry Rosenman From: Forrest Aldrich In-Reply-To: <217350000.1068584180@lerlaptop-red.iadfw.net> References: <6.0.0.22.2.20031111152727.01bd8dd8@192.168.1.1> <194310000.1068582748@lerlaptop-red.iadfw.net> <6.0.0.22.2.20031111154329.01be4e70@192.168.1.1> <217350000.1068584180@lerlaptop-red.iadfw.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-RAVMilter-Version: 8.3.0(snapshot 20010925) (forrie.ne.client2.attbi.com) X-MailScanner-LocalNet: Found to be clean Subject: Re: Nroff error X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 21:03:04 -0000 X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 21:03:04 -0000 LOL Check this out: bash-2.05b# gdb man bash GNU gdb 4.18 (FreeBSD) Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i386-unknown-freebsd"...(no debugging symbols found)... /usr/local/etc/openldap/bash: No such file or directory. (gdb) and this: bash-2.05b# manpath /usr/share/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/share/perl/man:/usr/share/openssl/man:/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503/man:/usr/X11R6/man Makes absolutely no sense to me. At 03:56 PM 11/11/2003, Larry Rosenman wrote: >One idea... > >Have you tried truss(1)'ing the man command to see what files it's looking >for? > >truss -o /tmp/truss.out man xxx > >? > > > >--On Tuesday, November 11, 2003 15:45:11 -0500 Forrest Aldrich > wrote: > >>Hi Larry, >> >>I seem to have this file: >> >>-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 5102 Nov 9 22:24 /usr/share/tmac/tty-char.tmac >>-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 1551 Nov 9 22:24 /usr/share/tmac/tty.tmac >> >>This has been a problem for a long time - none of my manpages work at >>all. I've tried reinstalling (makeworld/installworld,e tc) to no avail. >>Also, if I remove /usr/local/share/groff, I get more errors. >> >>So I think something is just plain wrong. I've tested my MANPATH and >>looked at /etc/manpath.config, and don't see problems. >> >>I'm getting to the point where I'm losing time by not having some >>manpages available, etc. >> >> >>Thanks, >>Forrest >> >> >>At 03:32 PM 11/11/2003, you wrote: >> >> >>>--On Tuesday, November 11, 2003 15:28:03 -0500 Forrest Aldrich >>> wrote: >>> >>>>Can someone explain what this error might be: >>>> >>>>nroff -man nasm.1 > nasm.man >>>>troff: fatal error: can't find macro file tty-char >>>>*** Error code 1 >>>> >>>>Long-standing issue on the system I'm using -- it affects usage of >>>>manpages (they don't work). Can't figure it out... >>>The following file is probably missing (drop the /stable/ from the path): >>> >>>/stable/usr/share/tmac/tty-char.tmac >>> >>>It can (probably) be copied from: >>> >>>/stable/usr/src/contrib/groff/tmac/tty-char.tmac >>> >>> >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>_______________________________________________ >>>>freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>>>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>>>To unsubscribe, send any mail to >>>>"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>> >>> >>> >>>-- >>>Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler >>>Phone: +1 972-414-9812 E-Mail: ler@lerctr.org >>>US Mail: 1905 Steamboat Springs Drive, Garland, TX 75044-6749 > > > >-- >Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler >Phone: +1 972-414-9812 E-Mail: ler@lerctr.org >US Mail: 1905 Steamboat Springs Drive, Garland, TX 75044-6749 >