problems with groff

[Ruslan Ermilov]

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 at sunbay.com		Sunbay Software Ltd,
ru at FreeBSD.org		FreeBSD committer
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