Subject: Re: Problem starting up 0.7.9
From: Simon Kitchin (S.J.Kitchin@bham.ac.uk)
Date: Mon May 08 2000 - 13:43:33 CDT
On Sat, 06 May 2000, you wrote:
> Simon Kitchin (S.J.Kitchin@bham.ac.uk) wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to upgrade from 0.7.8 to 0.7.9 (on RH linux 5.1). However, at the
> > moment I'm unable to run abiword except as root.
> >
> > I downloaded abisuite-0.7.9-linux_i386_static.tar.gz and installed it over the
> > top of 0.7.8 without any problems, however, when I try to started it up from
> > the command line I get the message -
> >
> > GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to: No such user 500
> >
>
> I have exactly the same problem. I'm running Debian 2.0. I've played around with
> the wrapper script, manually changed environment variables, etc, with no effect.
> I'm also using the static version of the 0.7.9 binary.
>
> When started as an ordinary user, the above GLib-WARNING message appears along
> with the dialog window that Simon mentions. The splash screen comes up, then
> goes away, but no program window appears. When the dialog window is cleared the
> command prompt reappears.
>
> When started as root the same GLib-WARNING message appears at the command line,
> but the program comes up okay and there is no dialog window.
>
> Bob Snyder
To answer my own question -
This can be solved by changing the permissions on
the font files in the font directory (e.g. /usr/local/AbiSuite/fonts/* )to give
read permission to other. Giving read permission to other in the contents of the
icons and dictionary directories may also be necessary.
Simon
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