Bug 52728 - man segmentation faults
Summary: man segmentation faults
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Public Beta
Classification: Retired
Component: groff
Version: roswell
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Florian La Roche
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-08-28 14:35 UTC by Tom Cross
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:36 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-08-28 19:12:44 UTC
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Description Tom Cross 2001-08-28 14:35:26 UTC 
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Description of problem:
man segmentation faults:

# man rpm
/usr/bin/nroff: line 100: 31534 Segmentation fault     
PATH=$GROFF_BIN_PATH:$PATH groff $safer -Wall -mtty-char $T $opts ${1+"$@"}

Default roswell2 'server' install with these packages:
man-1.5i2-4
man-pages-1.39-1
groff-1.17.2-2
groff-perl-1.17.2-2



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.execute 'man' on any subject
2.
3.
	

Actual Results:  segmentation faults

Expected Results:  would be nice if a man page showed up.  :-)

Additional info:

Default roswell2 'server' install with these packages:
man-1.5i2-4
man-pages-1.39-1
groff-1.17.2-2
groff-perl-1.17.2-2
Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-08-28 15:11:24 UTC 
Doesn't happen here. Also, the error message indicates nroff (not man) is 
segfaulting. Reassigning.
Comment 2 Florian La Roche 2002-01-05 08:34:03 UTC 
Works fine for me, so I suspect local install problems?

Thanks,

Florian La Roche
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