Nroff error

[Forrest Aldrich]

LOL

Check this out:

bash-2.05b# gdb man bash
GNU gdb 4.18 (FreeBSD)
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GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
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This GDB was configured as "i386-unknown-freebsd"...(no debugging symbols 
found)...

/usr/local/etc/openldap/bash: No such file or directory.
(gdb)

and this:

bash-2.05b# manpath
/usr/share/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/share/perl/man:/usr/share/openssl/man:/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503/man:/usr/X11R6/man

Makes absolutely no sense to me.





At 03:56 PM 11/11/2003, Larry Rosenman wrote:
>One idea...
>
>Have you tried truss(1)'ing the man command to see what files it's looking 
>for?
>
>truss -o /tmp/truss.out man xxx
>
>?
>
>
>
>--On Tuesday, November 11, 2003 15:45:11 -0500 Forrest Aldrich 
><forrie at forrie.com> wrote:
>
>>Hi Larry,
>>
>>I seem to have this file:
>>
>>-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  5102 Nov  9 22:24 /usr/share/tmac/tty-char.tmac
>>-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  1551 Nov  9 22:24 /usr/share/tmac/tty.tmac
>>
>>This has been a problem for a long time - none of my manpages work at
>>all.   I've tried reinstalling (makeworld/installworld,e tc) to no avail.
>>Also, if I remove /usr/local/share/groff, I get more errors.
>>
>>So I think something is just plain wrong.   I've tested my MANPATH and
>>looked at /etc/manpath.config, and don't see problems.
>>
>>I'm getting to the point where I'm losing time by not having some
>>manpages available, etc.
>>
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Forrest
>>
>>
>>At 03:32 PM 11/11/2003, you wrote:
>>
>>
>>>--On Tuesday, November 11, 2003 15:28:03 -0500 Forrest Aldrich
>>><forrie at forrie.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Can someone explain what this error might be:
>>>>
>>>>nroff -man nasm.1 > nasm.man
>>>>troff: fatal error: can't find macro file tty-char
>>>>*** Error code 1
>>>>
>>>>Long-standing issue on the system I'm using -- it affects usage of
>>>>manpages (they don't work).  Can't figure it out...
>>>The following file is probably missing (drop the /stable/ from the path):
>>>
>>>/stable/usr/share/tmac/tty-char.tmac
>>>
>>>It can (probably) be copied from:
>>>
>>>/stable/usr/src/contrib/groff/tmac/tty-char.tmac
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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