From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 10 10:59:00 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BCCF16A4BF; Wed, 10 Sep 2003 10:59:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from forrie.com (forrie.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.156.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B093543FCB; Wed, 10 Sep 2003 10:58:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from forrie@forrie.com) Received: from dell.forrie.com (wks.forrie.net. [192.168.1.21]) by forrie.com with ESMTP id h8AHwqj7006406; Wed, 10 Sep 2003 13:58:52 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from forrie@forrie.com) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20030910135829.01ba4630@192.168.1.1> X-Sender: forrie@192.168.1.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 13:58:51 -0400 To: Ruslan Ermilov From: Forrest Aldrich In-Reply-To: <20030910175454.GA47098@sunbay.com> References: <6.0.0.22.2.20030910112758.01c00318@192.168.1.1> <20030910175454.GA47098@sunbay.com> 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 cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems with groff X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 17:59:00 -0000 If I move /usr/local/share/groff to /usr/local/share/groff.old, and run the man command, I get this error: # man ls Formatting page, please wait.../usr/bin/groff: can't find `DESC' file /usr/bin/groff:fatal error: invalid device `ascii' At 01:54 PM 9/10/2003, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: >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 > > hasn't been working because of this for a while. This is > > FreeBSD-4.9-Prerelease: > > > > # gdb man man > > GNU gdb 4.18 (FreeBSD) > > This GDB was configured as "i386-unknown-freebsd"...(no debugging symbols > > found)... > > > > /usr/share/tmac/man: No such file or directory. > > > > And when I go to run a manpage, I sometimes get this error: > > > > # man troff > > Formatting page, please wait...troff: fatal error: can't find macro file > > tty-char > > Done. > > > > But clearly tty-char is in: > > > > # 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 > > > > > > This can't be that difficult to fix... where is the problem? Installing > > again from /usr/src doesn't make any different here, so I wonder if it's a > > config issue? > > >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, >-- >Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, >ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software Ltd, >ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer