Bug 273443

Summary: Broken FreeBSD man pages portal
Product: Documentation Reporter: Pawel Kraszewski <root+FreeBSD>
Component: WebsiteAssignee: Wolfram Schneider <wosch>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Many People CC: doc, wosch
Priority: ---    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   
Bug Depends on: 273245, 273565    
Bug Blocks: 273903    
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How man page looks now none

Description Pawel Kraszewski 2023-08-30 09:40:11 UTC 
Created attachment 244461 [details]
How man page looks now

There seems to be some serious problem with https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi - it displays just the beginning of a document as a wall of text with all formatting removed.

Tested on 2 machines (laptop, desktop), 2 browsers (Chrome, Firefox), 2 networks, with all plugins disabled.

Attachment is the current appearance of ng_ether page.
Comment 1 Wolfram Schneider freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2023-08-30 15:23:45 UTC 
Something went wrong an OS update, I will check.
Comment 2 Pawel Kraszewski 2023-08-31 06:29:07 UTC 
All seems good now. Thank you.
Comment 3 Wolfram Schneider freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2023-09-04 13:52:15 UTC 
(In reply to Wolfram Schneider from comment #1)

Actually, it was not the OS upgrade, it was the upgrade of groff from 1.22.4 to 1.23.0. The groff argument "-man" does not longer works as in the past, you have to use "-mandoc" now. This will affect all supported FreeBSD release/branches (12/13/14/15). I will file another bug report for our tool chain.