Run emacs -Q --execute '(woman "ssh_config")'. System is running Debian 9 with openssh-server package 7.4p1-10+deb9u2. It's dying in http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/lisp/woman.el#n2281. In GNU Emacs 25.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.11) of 2017-11-20 built on commander Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11902000 System Description: Debian GNU/Linux 9.3 (stretch) Configured using: 'configure --prefix=/opt/emacs-25.3' Configured features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG SOUND DBUS GSETTINGS NOTIFY FREETYPE XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11 Important settings: value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Fundamental Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent messages: For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. Building list of manual directory expansions... Building completion list of all manual topics... uncompressing ssh_config.5.gz...done WoMan formatting buffer... woman-decode-region: WoMan can only format man pages written with the usual ‘-man’ macros Making completion list... Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message dired format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec password-cache epg epg-config gnus-util mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util help-fns mail-prsvr mail-utils disp-table view jka-compr woman cl-extra help-mode man easymenu cl-loaddefs pcase cl-lib ansi-color time-date mule-util tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel x-win term/common-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese charscript case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote dbusbind inotify dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 121139 4967) (symbols 48 20368 0) (miscs 40 49 146) (strings 32 23609 4539) (string-bytes 1 556396) (vectors 16 12732) (vector-slots 8 445784 5101) (floats 8 169 13) (intervals 56 195 0) (buffers 976 20))