at the command line : tfoerste@n22 ~ $ man shutdown Error parsing *roff command from file /usr/share/man/man8/shutdown.8.bz2 (package sys-apps/sysvinit-2.88-r1) and upstreams thinks it is rather related to Gentoo : http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?33023 Reproducible: Always tfoerste@n22 ~ $ emerge --info groff Portage 2.1.9.42 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.4.5, glibc-2.11.3-r0, 2.6.38.2 i686) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.38.2-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_P8600_@_2.40GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.14 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 07:15:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.1_p9 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.6.6-r2, 3.1.3-r1 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r9 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.1-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.14-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.5 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.10 sys-devel/make: 3.81-r2 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.36.1 (sys-kernel/linux-headers) ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs ccache compress-build-logs distlocks fixlafiles fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.netcologne.de/gentoo/ http://mirror.cambrium.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/ http://mirror.opteamax.de/gentoo/ http://91.121.124.139/gentoo-distfiles/" LANG="en_US.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="en en_GB" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa apache2 berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdda cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt css cups cxx dbus dri dts dvb dvd dvdr emboss encode exif fam fastbuild fat ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gdbm gdu gif git gmp gphoto2 gpm gtk hyphenation iconv ipv6 java jpeg kde kqemu lastfm lcms ldap libnotify logrotate mad mbox mikmod mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf perl png policykit ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 rdesktop readline sdl session sieve spell sse sse2 sse3 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd test thinkpad tiff tk truetype udev unicode usb vaapi vim-syntax vorbis wmf x264 x86 xcb xcomposite xinerama xml xorg xpm xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard evdev mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_GB" LIRC_DEVICES="devinput inputlirc" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="i386" QEMU_USER_TARGETS="i386" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS ================================================================= Package Settings ================================================================= sys-apps/groff-1.20.1-r3 was built with the following: USE="X -examples" LINGUAS="-ja"
that isnt coming from groff, it's coming from man. the man package doesnt support the directive sysvinit is using. seems that this is man-db specific. easy to see that same output occurs with groff-1.20*, and before groff is executed (strace it).
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