Re: abiword dies right after startup


Subject: Re: abiword dies right after startup
From: Robert Sievers (bob@abisource.com)
Date: Sat Feb 12 2000 - 17:57:16 CST


At 04:04 PM 2/9/00 +0000, Peter Tieleman wrote:
>A previous version of Abiword died before even starting up
>$ abiword
>$
>I just updated to the newest version with the same result.
>abiword is a link to /usr/X11R6/bin/abiword, which is a link to
>/usr/share/abisuite/bin/AbiWord which calls
>/usr/share/abisuite/bin/AbiWord_d
>If I type that directly I get a segv.
>
>Maybe there's some incompatible dynamic library but I have no idea where
>to look.

This could be due to a mismatch between the version of the PNG libraries.
Try running abiword with the --nosplash option. If that works, we will
know it's a PNG problem, which we think we have a fix for.

Robert Sievers
Open Source Evangelist



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