Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 17:47:56 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> To: what ever <thursday@freeshell.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: man doesn't work sometimes Message-ID: <20020128174756.A677@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <20020128153132.A14810@sdf.freeshell.org> References: <20020128153132.A14810@sdf.freeshell.org>
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On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 03:31:32PM +0000, what ever wrote: > 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. [...] > & 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 [...] > Any ideas? > ISTR a problem report with similar symptoms. It turned out to be a bad troff(1) binary on the release media. See if the installed /usr/bin/troff binary matches that on the release media. Standard CD-ROM distribution has a live file system on a second disc in the set. Mount it and compare checksums with md5(1). BTW, where did you get your 4.4-RELEASE, and on which media? Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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