Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 10:38:31 -0400 From: Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Groff installation problem (FreeBSD-4.8) Message-ID: <6.0.0.14.2.20030813103000.01b3bb20@192.168.1.1>
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I've verified, after a few system rebuilds, that the groff installation is
doing something wrong. The end result is the general failure of the
manpage subsystem. Here's what's happening:
The general error I'll get when attempting to process any manpage (via
"man" or just groff/nroff) is:
troff: fatal error: can't find macro file tty-char
Running an "strace" on nroff shows:
[ snip ]
sigaction(SIGSYS, {SIG_DFL}, NULL) = 0
read(10, "#!/bin/sh\n# Emulate nroff with g"..., 1023) = 1023
break(0x80c3000) = 0
break(0x80c4000) = 0
read(10, "se $1 in\n -c)\n opts=\"$op"..., 1023) = 1023
read(10, "_BIN_PATH=/usr/bin}\nexport GROFF"..., 1023) = 112
stat("/usr/bin/groff", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0555, st_size=50544, ...}) = 0
fork() = 6379
getpgrp(0troff: fatal error: can't find macro file tty-char
) = 6377
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) ---
wait4(-1, [WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 1], 0x2, NULL) = 6379
read(10, "", 1023) = 0
exit(1) = ?
I note that /usr/local/share/groff contains:
# ls /usr/local/share/groff/*/*
/usr/local/share/groff/1.19/eign
/usr/local/share/groff/1.19/font:
devX100 devX75 devascii devhtml devlbp
devps
devX100-12 devX75-12 devdvi devlatin1 devlj4
devutf8
whereas under /usr/share/groff_font, we have also:
# ls /usr/share/groff_font
devX100 devX75-12 devdvi devlatin1 devps
devX100-12 devascii devhtml devlbp devutf8
devX75 devcp1047 devkoi8-r devlj4
moving /usr/local/share/groff has the result of this error:
groff: can't find `DESC' file
groff:fatal error: invalid device `ascii'
Another strace I performed:
# strace /usr/bin/troff -man
[ snip ]
open("/usr/local/share/groff/site-font/devps/ZDR", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT
(No such file or directory)
open("/usr/local/share/groff/1.19/font/devps/ZDR", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=4863, ...}) = 0
read(3, "name ZDR\ninternalname ZapfDingba"..., 8192) = 4863
break(0x80e0000) = 0
read(3, "", 8192) = 0
close(3) = 0
gettimeofday({1060784231, 392758}, NULL) = 0
access("/etc/localtime", R_OK) = 0
open("/etc/localtime", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=1250, ...}) = 0
read(3, "TZif\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\0\0\3\0"..., 7944)
= 1250
close(3) = 0
getpid() = 5467 (ppid 5466)
break(0x80e3000) = 0
open("/usr/local/share/groff/site-font/devps/TR", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No
such file or directory)
open("/usr/local/share/groff/1.19/font/devps/TR", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=7531, ...}) = 0
read(3, "name TR\ninternalname Times-Roman"..., 8192) = 7531
break(0x80e4000) = 0
break(0x80e5000) = 0
break(0x80e7000) = 0
break(0x80ea000) = 0
break(0x80ee000) = 0
read(3, "", 8192) = 0
close(3) = 0
open("/usr/local/lib/groff/site-tmac/troffrc", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No
such file or directory)
open("/usr/local/share/groff/site-tmac/troffrc", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No
such file or directory)
open("/usr/local/share/groff/1.19/tmac/troffrc", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No
such file or directory)
open("/usr/local/home/forrie/home/an.tmac", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such
file or directory)
open("/usr/local/lib/groff/site-tmac/an.tmac", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No
such file or directory)
open("/usr/local/share/groff/site-tmac/an.tmac", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No
such file or directory)
open("/usr/local/share/groff/1.19/tmac/an.tmac", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No
such file or directory)
open("/usr/local/home/forrie/home/tmac.an", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such
file or directory)
open("/usr/local/lib/groff/site-tmac/tmac.an", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No
such file or directory)
open("/usr/local/share/groff/site-tmac/tmac.an", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No
such file or directory)
open("/usr/local/share/groff/1.19/tmac/tmac.an", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No
such file or directory)
write(2, "/usr/bin/troff: fatal error: can"..., 54/usr/bin/troff: fatal
error: can't find macro file an
) = 54
exit(1)
So, it seems clearly that something is wrong with the installation. I've
tried recompiling from /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/groff and installing, as well
as multiple CVSup updates, to no avail.
What is wrong?
_F
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