Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 13:58:51 -0400 From: Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems with groff Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20030910135829.01ba4630@192.168.1.1> In-Reply-To: <20030910175454.GA47098@sunbay.com> References: <6.0.0.22.2.20030910112758.01c00318@192.168.1.1> <20030910175454.GA47098@sunbay.com>
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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
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