Ticket 23940

Summary: Fix sackd.8 manpage
Product: Slurm Reporter: Gennaro Oliva <gennaro.oliva>
Component: DocumentationAssignee: Stephen Kendall <stephen>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
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Version: 25.05.4   
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Attachments: patch

Description Gennaro Oliva 2025-10-21 21:30:57 MDT 
Created attachment 43415 [details]
patch

This patch fixes a formatting error in the sackd.8 manpage. The original
source used the invalid escape sequence \fb, which makes groff attempt to
select a non-existent font 'b' and triggers the warning:
troff:<standard input>:91: warning: cannot select font 'b'.
The patch corrects this by replacing \fb with the proper escape sequence \fB
to select bold font.
Comment 3 Stephen Kendall 2025-10-22 15:36:00 MDT 
Thanks for pointing out this issue. We'll get it fixed soon.

Best regards,
Stephen
Comment 4 Stephen Kendall 2025-10-22 16:21:16 MDT 
We have checked in a fix for this issue.
https://github.com/SchedMD/slurm/commit/f0f1b28ac65e6eb0a894e81af9c14a9035033e69

I also noticed another formatting issue slightly further down on that page and fixed it as well.
https://github.com/SchedMD/slurm/commit/4213ad67e2e579006dcd8ebe9f5a62543215416e

Both of these fixes will be included in the next major release, 25.11.

Best regards,
Stephen