From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 26 6: 9:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.nc.rr.com (fe5.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 897D837B416; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 06:09:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from i8k.babbleon.org ([66.57.85.154]) by mail5.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Mon, 26 Nov 2001 09:09:41 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: Ruslan Ermilov Subject: Re: Problem with groff (man) after updating yesterday/today Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 09:09:39 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, smkelly@creighton.edu References: <01112517302000.00626@i8k.babbleon.org> <20011126124203.E61002@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <20011126124203.E61002@sunbay.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01112609093900.00903@i8k.babbleon.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Monday 26 November 2001 05:42, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > 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. > > > > 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. Sorry, I should have been more explicit. Yes, that file exists. Here's the directory and the DESc file itself. I suspect that they are correct, and it's groff itself that is somehow broken and therefore looking in the wrong place: > ls /usr/share/groff_font/devascii B BI CW DESC I L R S > cat /usr/share/groff_font/devascii/DESC res 240 hor 24 vert 40 unitwidth 10 sizes 10 0 fonts 7 R I B BI S L CW tcommand postpro grotty -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org -------> Free Dmitry Sklyarov! (let him go home) <----------- http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message