Re: Nroff error

[Larry Rosenman]

--On Tuesday, November 11, 2003 16:00:48 -0500 Forrest Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Yes, I have actually.  And this makes it even more mysterious.  Check
this out:

bash-2.05b# truss -o /tmp/truss.out man perl
Formatting page, please wait...troff: fatal error: can't find macro file
tty-char
Done.
bash-2.05b# cat /tmp/truss.out
bash-2.05b# truss -o /tmp/truss.out man sh
bash-2.05b# truss -o /tmp/truss.out man bash

I get that error first, then each subsequent returns nothing... and
/tmp/truss.out is empty.

try adding the -f flag to trace all the sub processes it creates.

Forrest



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
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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