Re: abiword startup failure

From: Gary Ross (gary.ross@t-online.de)
Date: Mon Jun 24 2002 - 16:53:21 EDT

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    Neal wrote:

    >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,
    Absolutely BRILLIANT!!! After dropping the directory it works perfect.
    Thanks a heap!

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