man error
 

When i run ¡°man ls¡± , it shows the below error, how to solve? Thx.

/usr/bin/nroff: /usr/bin/nroff: Too many open files in system

Re: man error
 

Is it just me...or does that look weird?, as in weird characters?

Garry

Does the user who you are trying to view the man pages with have a low limit set on the amount of allowed open files? Usually set with ulimit, 'ulimit -a' should list all the limits. How ever you usually can't change this limit. So you should probably be checking what kind of files are being held open. Maybe close a few programs if necessary. Are there any programs open which forget to close file descriptors? You can check all the used file descriptors with the command 'lsof'.