When it happened to me I was trying to load a manpage on a root shell. sudo -s
man lvcreate man: can't change directory to '/home/user': Permission denied man: command exited with status 159: /usr/lib/man-db/zsoelim | /usr/lib/man-db/manconv -f UTF-8:ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8//IGNORE | preconv -e UTF-8 | tbl | nroff -mandoc -rLL=136n -rLT=136n -Tutf8 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1751745 Title: groff crashed with signal 31 in kill() To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/groff/+bug/1751745/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs