esr@thyrsus.com wrote:

Full_Name: Eric S. Raymond Version: OS: Linux URL: http://www.catb.org/~esr/doclifter/prepatch/slapd.conf.5.patch Submission from: (NULL) (2001:470:e34c:0:226:18ff:fea6:dca4)

List syntax error. This means .IP, .TP or .RS/.RE markup is garbled. Common causes include .TP just before a section header, .TP entries with tags but no bodies, and mandoc lists with no trailing .El. These confuse doclifter, and may also mess up stricter man-page browsers like Xman and Rosetta.

Fix patch at link.

The patch changes much more than your bug report mentions. The error message you provide is pretty ambiguous, in particular you haven't mentioned exactly which markup element is out of order. Without this information we can't confirm what you're fixing.