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Date:      Wed, 10 Sep 2003 20:54:55 +0300
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>
To:        Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: problems with groff
Message-ID:  <20030910175454.GA47098@sunbay.com>
In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20030910112758.01c00318@192.168.1.1>
References:  <6.0.0.22.2.20030910112758.01c00318@192.168.1.1>

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On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 11:30:56AM -0400, Forrest Aldrich wrote:
> Why would this be happening, and how can I fix this - the man subsystem=
=20
> hasn't been working because of this for a while.  This is=20
> FreeBSD-4.9-Prerelease:
>=20
> # gdb man man
> GNU gdb 4.18 (FreeBSD)
> This GDB was configured as "i386-unknown-freebsd"...(no debugging symbols=
=20
> found)...
>=20
> /usr/share/tmac/man: No such file or directory.
>=20
> And when I go to run a manpage, I sometimes get this error:
>=20
> # man troff
> Formatting page, please wait...troff: fatal error: can't find macro file=
=20
> tty-char
> Done.
>=20
> But clearly tty-char is in:
>=20
> # ls -l /usr/share/tmac/tty-char.tmac
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  5102 Sep 10 11:16 /usr/share/tmac/tty-char.tmac
>=20
>=20
> This can't be that difficult to fix... where is the problem?  Installing=
=20
> again from /usr/src doesn't make any different here, so I wonder if it's =
a=20
> config issue?
>=20
Maybe some /usr/loca stuff gets in the way?  How about
temporarily ``mv /usr/local /usr/local~'' and attempting
to run ``man troff'' again?


Cheers,
--=20
Ruslan Ermilov		Sysadmin and DBA,
ru@sunbay.com		Sunbay Software Ltd,
ru@FreeBSD.org		FreeBSD committer

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