Re: abiword startup failure

From: Neal (linuxer@ptd.net)
Date: Mon Jun 24 2002 - 15:45:20 EDT

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    On Mon, 24 Jun 2002 17:35:11 +0200
    gary.ross@t-online.de (Gary Ross) wrote:

    > Hi there abiword users,
    >
    > I have installed abiword-1.0.2-SuSE.jeo.1.i386.rpm after confirming all
    > dependencies on a SuSE Linux v8.0 system running on a Pentium II-233
    > with 64MB physical and 110MB swap memory. Abiword 0.9 came with the SuSE
    > distribution and functioned fine. I removed it with RPM using KPackage
    > and installed version 1.0.2 fresh without an update.
    >
    > When I execute the abiword-1.0.2 the splash screen appears and within
    > seconds the program abends with a Gnome windoid advising that AbiWord_d
    > has crashed due a segmentation fault. This occurs under both Gnome 1.4
    > and KDE 3.0.
    >
    > I would very much appreciate someone telling me what I've done wrong and
    > how I can fix it.
    >

    Gary,
    I had a similar problem when upgrading abiword. I found that it was due to something in the configuration in ~/.AbiSuite/AbiWord.Profile. After deleting the ~/.AbiSuite directory, abiword runs great.

    -- 
    Neal
    Registered Linux User #159445
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