Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 16:26:12 +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: <20011126162611.E99290@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <01112609093900.00903@i8k.babbleon.org> References: <01112517302000.00626@i8k.babbleon.org> <20011126124203.E61002@sunbay.com> <01112609093900.00903@i8k.babbleon.org>
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On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 09:09:39AM -0500, Brian T.Schellenberger wrote: > On Monday 26 November 2001 05:42, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > 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. > > > > > > 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. > > Sorry, I should have been more explicit. > > Yes, that file exists. > > Here's the directory and the DESc file itself. I suspect that they are > correct, and it's groff itself that is somehow broken and therefore looking > in the wrong place: > > > ls /usr/share/groff_font/devascii > B BI CW DESC I L R S > > cat /usr/share/groff_font/devascii/DESC > res 240 > hor 24 > vert 40 > unitwidth 10 > sizes 10 0 > fonts 7 R I B BI S L CW > tcommand > postpro grotty > OK, then please run these two commands in sequence: $ groff -Tascii /dev/null $ groff -F/usr/share/groff_font -Tascii /dev/null Do you by accident have some GROFF_* variables set in your shell environment? 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-stable" in the body of the message
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