man ssh (for example) reports on stderr: /usr/share/groff/1.20.1/tmac/doc.tmac:3375: bad character definition I have sys-apps/groff-1.20.1-r1 and net-misc/openssh-5.1_p1-r2 installed. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Found another report of this on http://bugs.frugalware.org/task/3610 where the triggering manpage is 'man mrxvt' and a suggested fix is: Change line 3375 in doc.tmac from .char \- \N'45' to .rchar \- \N'45' I tried this and the message was gone but I don't know if this is the correct fix.
Confirmed on amd64, same groff version, triggered by man rc, man rc-update. BTW, bug #271230 is a duplicate of this.
bump
Yep, bump again. Confirmed on ia32. Same groff.
*** Bug 288610 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
bump. "man mail" also gives "/usr/share/groff/1.20.1/tmac/doc.tmac:3375: bad character definition" groff 1.20.1-r1 man 1.6f-r3 mailx 8.1.2.20050715-r1
Looks like bug #283479 is also a dupe.
Getting the same w/ some openrc manpages, such as rc-status(8) or rc-service(8) [ebuild R ] sys-apps/groff-1.20.1-r2 USE="X -examples" LINGUAS="-ja" 0 kB
following seems to work figured out using http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/groff/tmac/doc.tmac?view=annotate&root=groff looking at the end of file at cvs --- /tmp/unpatched 2010-04-17 08:49:01.000000000 +0530 +++ /usr/share/groff/1.20.1/tmac/doc.tmac 2010-04-17 08:56:14.000000000 +0530 @@ -3370,6 +3370,7 @@ .sp .. .blm empty-line +.ec .if '\*[.T]'utf8' \{\ .rchar \- - ' ` .char \- \N'45' @@ -3377,5 +3378,4 @@ .char ' \N'39' .char ` \N'96' .\} -.ec .mso mdoc.local
Created attachment 228085 [details, diff] patch for bad char defn. no more ugly hack like last post this patch goes on the source code of groff (groff-1.20.1.tar.gz)
*** Bug 283479 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
this patch is already in upstream and should be applied bumped into it today I simple google search brings a link from the first page of results here to the upstream commit
*** Bug 271230 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
added the patch from upstream cvs to groff-1.20.1-r3