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Subject: man doesn't work sometimes
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Hi,

I am having a slightly puzzling problem. Running man <some_command> sometimes segfaults, as below, and sometimes it doesn't. 

# man mail
Formatting page, please wait.../usr/bin/groff: troff: Segmentation fault
Done.

# man sendmail
returns a nice manpage

# man ls
also returns a nice manpage

# man lynx
does, too

# man mutt 
coredumps

# man emacs
coredumps

# man vi
coredumps

# man groff
# man troff both coredump as well. 

& Etcetera. I am at a bit of a loss. 

I'm running FreeBSD4.4-Release, (installed as a binary upgrade from 4.2-RELEASE). man version is 1.1

Here is what groff & troff say about themseleves:

# groff -v
GNU groff version 1.17.2
Copyright (C) 1989-2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GNU groff comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You may redistribute copies of groff and its subprograms
under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.

called subprograms:

GNU troff (groff) version 1.17.2
GNU grops (groff) version 1.17.2


Any ideas? 



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