We don't ship it this way, of course, as is indicated by the fact that it started working once you reinstalled groff-base. It looks like this was due to some local filesystem corruption on your system, so if your disk is old you might want to start thinking about a replacement.
** Changed in: manpages (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- /usr/bin/nroff: line 95: /usr/bin/groff: cannot execute binary file https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/73366 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs