Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 13:56:44 -0500 From: Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Mysterious manpage & *roff problems solved (SOLUTION) Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20031112135218.01d0b928@192.168.1.1>
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I had posted recently regarding a mysterious problem I had with my manpage subsystem not working properly. This has been a problem for quite some time. After analyzing ktrace/kdump outputs, removing any conflicting *roff files in /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/share, we still couldn't get it working. Interestingly, there are no indications of *roff in /var/db/pkg, so I have no idea how it ended up under /usr/local to begin with. The solution, thanks to Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>, was to backup my /usr/src/sys/i386/conf file and "rm -rf" the entire /usr/src and /usr/obj trees, then re-CVSup (putting back my kernel config) and rebuild/reinstall the system. It was a pickle - as the problem just didn't seem obvious. So, somewhere along the line something got munged up in the /usr/src directory. I hope this solution helps someone out there that may get bitten by this. And again thanks to Larry. Forrest
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