/usr/bin/nroff : Can't create temp directory , exiting.....

maxery · 11-03-2009, 11:25 PM

I have do nothing after I installed openSUSE 11.1
but when I used the commend 'man ls',it display :
.
.
/usr/bin/nroff : Can't create temp directory , exiting.....
and then it really exited

I don't know why
how can I get it over
Thanks for anybody

evo2 · 11-03-2009, 11:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by maxery

I have do nothing after I installed openSUSE 11.1
but when I used the commend 'man ls',it display :
.
.
/usr/bin/nroff : Can't create temp directory , exiting.....
and then it really exited

Is there space in your /tmp partition? What is the output of:
df

Evo2.

bartonski · 11-04-2009, 12:20 AM

I did a little googling for your error, and found this. It's difficult to get much out of that link, there's not a whole lot of context to go on, but try typing

Code:

echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH

at the command prompt, and paste the result back in to a reply. The link implies that /bin/mktemp (which is called by nroff), requires $LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be set. If it's not, that might cause the issue.

That's called shootin' from the hip, folks.

gtoneff1@gmail.com · 11-02-2011, 06:42 PM

ls -ld /tmp and ensure the perms are 777. Also check with "df /tmp" that /tmp is not 100% full.

bogusstrawman · 08-07-2017, 01:58 AM

Just to put in what I found - the /tmp sticky bit was missing on my system with this error. So, as root: chmod 1777 /tmp