Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 17:30:20 -0500 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: smkelly@creighton.edu Subject: Problem with groff (man) after updating yesterday/today Message-ID: <01112517302000.00626@i8k.babbleon.org>
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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.
I'd tried going to /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/groff/font/devascii and doing a "make
install"; that doesn't fix anything. (Got this idea from a search of the
archives for this list. It actually had a different directory name, but that
directory does not exist on my system, but it doesn't seem to have existed
before the upgrade so I don't think that's the problem.)
In another thread about groff problems with cvsup'ing, Sean Kelley said that
this was previously discussed and a fix posted, but I can't find the
discussion to which he refers; the subject line must have a less-than-obvious
title or the discussion must not have gotten archived for some reason. In
any case, that was all back in early November and since I just cvsup'ed
yesterday, I'd certainly have expected that a fix would have been committed
by now . . . .
Any help y'all can give is much appreciated.
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