Man Errors...

[buc99]

I've been getting the following man error every time I run man ls:

grotty:<standard input>:3208:fatal error: output error

Anyone know what is causing this and how to fix it?

Thanks,
SA

 

[blb]

Some possibilities: do you have a full disk? If not, can you write to /tmp? When man processes a page, it sends some temporary stuff to /tmp, so that may explain it.

 

[kilowatt]

blb's probably got it right, but lets see if maybe its a termcap issue.

type

echo $TERM

should read something like vt100

According to my man pages, grotty "...translates the output of GNU troff into a form suitable for typewriter-like devices..."

Sounds like a terminal issue to me, but who knows ;-) the 'top' command gives me 'bus error' when I have $TERM set wrong.

 

[buc99]

After rebooting, everything seems to be working normal again. I have over 2.5 G of drive space, so that should not be the issue. I think it has something to do with Microshaft Office. I'm running vX and have been getting weird errors from word saying things are wrong with my drive and shuts off Autosave then crashes. I think these items may be related. When I run Drive 10 though, nothing is wrong with my drive. I don't know what is going on, I'll try to do some more digging around the next time it happens.

Thank You everyone for your help.
SA