Re: troff segfaulting

[Falk Hueffner <falk.hueffner@student.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Jean-Paul Blaquiere <japester@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> writes:

> has anyone else experienced this recentlty?
> 
> I apt-get upgrad'ed this afternoon and since then groff is segf'ing.
> 
> beowulf[99]/usr/lib/man-db> man man                                                                                  0:38
> groff: troff: Segmentation fault
> 
> and strace'd :
> 
> beowulf[100]/usr/lib/man-db> strace man man                                                                                  0:38
> execve("/usr/lib/man-db/man", ["man", "man"], [/* 24 vars */]) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted)

Perhaps /usr/lib/man-db/man has lost it's x flag. It should look like
this:

-rwsr-xr-x    1 man      root        83008 Feb 11 14:17 /usr/lib/man-db/man*

	Falk

Or try running mandb.

	Falk