problems with groff

[Forrest Aldrich]

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