AbiWord crashes

From: Scott Courtney (courtney@4th.com)
Date: Sat Jul 13 2002 - 10:55:25 EDT

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    Good morning.

    I'm a new user of AbiWord, and newly subscribed to this list.

    I had AbiWord 0.99-1 installed on a virgin SuSE 8.0 (Intel) Linux system. It
    ran successfully but was crashing frequently. Being a coder myself (though in
    Java, PHP, and SQL, not much C++), it naturally occurred to me to go get the
    latest version to see if the crashes were fixed.

    SuSE doesn't have an update yet, but I found a build by "jeo" (initials?) on
    the AbiWord downloads page. That segfaulted while trying to install with
    "rpm -U". So I uninstalled ("rpm --erase") the original SuSE RPM, and did an
    "rpm --install" on the new one. Everything was fine. Unfortunately, the
    program now crashes immediately upon initialization.

    So, I backed out the RPM and decided to try a source build with no RPM on the
    machine. I have glib/gtk 1.2-10, by the way, unmodified from the SuSE distro
    media, and I have the GNOME developer kits from the same media. No patches.

    The source code builds and installs fine, but again it crashes immediately
    upon initialization. The error log is:

    /usr/local/bin/abiword: line 67: 1095 Aborted $ABISUITE_LIBEXEC/AbiWord_d "$@"

    I'm not enough of a C++ wizard to use gdb to debug this thing, especially since
    the source code is entirely unfamiliar to me.

    I'm assuming someone has seen this error before. I'm going to go search on
    Google, but with keywords like "abiword" and "line 67" I'll bet it's tough
    to sift through the pile of false hits. Anyone care to enlighten me as to
    what might be wrong here? BTW, I've been to the README, the changelog, and
    the FAQs. I'll also try Bugzilla, though I have only browsed it cursorily
    so far.

    TIA for any suggestions.

    Scott 

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