Re: Please help - I can't start AbiWord

From: andy_man@popmail.com
Date: Sat Apr 13 2002 - 15:49:36 EDT

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    Hi Bronek!
    Yes it's RedHat, although Skipjack beta2.
    And I use the i686-0.99.5 (+ fonts) RPM's from Savannah.
    Even if I run from command-line mode, I get no error message output before AbiWord is closed (except for the gtk-messages as described before).

    Thanks!
    Andy

    > Dnia sob 13. kwiecień 2002 12:56, andy_man@popmail.com napisał:
    >
    > Hi,
    > I'm really not shure if I can help you, but please say first what distrib
    > are you on (RedHat?) and did you installed AW from the sources or from
    > *rpm package? I guess from rpm, true?
    >
    > After I get this info will try to find a solution for you.
    >
    > Bronek
    >
    > > Hello!
    > > I would appreciate some help with this.
    > > I can't start AbiWord.
    > > I guess it has something to do with environment or search paths,
    > > but I'm not really good at this.
    > > At the moment, I have uninstall and then reinstall Abi each time I want
    > > to start it. After that it works till I reboot. Then it's the same
    > > again.
    > >
    > > Andy
    > >
    > >
    > > This is the previous message:
    > > -----------------------------
    > > First time I start Abi I only get the "could not add it's typefaces to
    > > the X font path". That's all, I just have to press OK and everything
    > > works OK from then. However I do indeed have the > load "type1" <
    > > string included in the /etc/X11/XF86config-4 file. I run the I run the
    > > command $ /usr/sbin/chkfontpath -a /usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts and it
    > > says something like "it's already there".
    > >
    > > After reboot though, when starting AbiWord I get the message: "could
    > > not find any local fonts files in the font path". Then it says I should
    > > start Abi through a script rather that executing the binary directly.
    > > If so, where's that script file? Anyway, it says that the current font
    > > path is /usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts/ - isn't that the correct one? And
    > > when I list that dir, there are plenty of fonts there. However, this
    > > time I run the command $ /usr/sbin/chkfontpath -a
    > > /usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts it says: "chkfontpath: error opening
    > > /usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts/fonts.dir" What does that mean? Is there
    > > supoosed to be a file there called "fonts.dir"? How do I create it?
    > >
    > > Third time I try to open AbiWord, I get both these two messages. When I
    > > have clicked OK on both of them, nothing more happens. So now I can't
    > > start AbiWord. I would appreciate some guidance. I have looked in the
    > > user-list and the how-to, but I can't understand what to do.
    > >
    > > Thanks!

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