From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 26 2:42:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (whale.sunbay.crimea.ua [212.110.138.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 701DB37B405 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 02:42:28 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ru@localhost) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.11.6/8.11.2) id fAQAg3r68164; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 12:42:03 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ru) Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 12:42:03 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: "Brian T.Schellenberger" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, smkelly@creighton.edu Subject: Re: Problem with groff (man) after updating yesterday/today Message-ID: <20011126124203.E61002@sunbay.com> References: <01112517302000.00626@i8k.babbleon.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <01112517302000.00626@i8k.babbleon.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 05:30:20PM -0500, Brian T.Schellenberger wrote: > > I just upgraded to 4.4-STABLE from 4.3-STABLE. > > All went mostly smoothly with two exceptions. > > The first is minor: Once again I have to kldload snd_maestro3 and I somehow > had this going automatically pre-upgrade. No big deal; I added it back to my > /usr/local/etc/rc.d, though before I'd found a config file that made it "just > work" for mapping sound cards to modules, and if anybody knows off-hand what > file controls that I'd be grateful. > > But the second one is a real pain the neck: man is broken because groff is > broken; I get the following the first time I ask for a man page. (The second > time, the man command has helpfully cached an empty file for me--I'll have to > get rid of all those after I fix the first problem.): > > Formatting page, please wait.../usr/bin/groff: can't find `DESC' file > /usr/bin/groff:fatal error: invalid device `ascii' > Done. > > Well, the /usr/share/groff/groff_font/devascii directory exists. I'm not > very familiar with what it should have, but it looks plausible. > The correct location is /usr/share/groff_font/devascii/DESC. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message