display man pages

[Basavaraj]

Hi folks,
I've installed RH Linux 7.2 on my HP Pavilion 4563Z desktop. Also have Win 98 on my PC. I'm unable to view man pages in Linux. The error I get is "groff: couldn't exec troff I/O error" Please hlp.
Thanks.

[Balaji N]

Hi,
That I/O error makes me think that there is some hardware problems. is your hard disk good.

do this and see if everything is ok.

dd if=/dev/ of=/dev/null bs=2048k

hth
-b-

[Stuart Browne · Accepted solution]

is the 'groff' package installed?

Check with the command:

rpm -q groff

the 'groff' package should also provide 'troff' (but you can check this by issuing:

rpm -ql groff | grep troff
).

If it is, then you'll need to check that the man pages are installed correctly into the correct path (/usr/man/ and /usr/share/man/), and are readable by the user spitting the error out.

If all of this is correct, then verify that the 'groff' package hasn't been corrupted by issuing:

rpm -V groff

If you see no output, everything is happy.

Hope this helps you a bit.

[Basavaraj]

Thanks guys. Stuart you are genius! The -V option told me that there were some files missing, hence I reinstalled groff amd man packages. It works fine now. Thanks again guys!