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Date:      Mon, 26 Nov 2001 12:42:03 +0200
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        "Brian T.Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, smkelly@creighton.edu
Subject:   Re: Problem with groff (man) after updating yesterday/today
Message-ID:  <20011126124203.E61002@sunbay.com>
In-Reply-To: <01112517302000.00626@i8k.babbleon.org>
References:  <01112517302000.00626@i8k.babbleon.org>

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On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 05:30:20PM -0500, Brian T.Schellenberger wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
The correct location is /usr/share/groff_font/devascii/DESC.


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