Re: Linux error

Shaw Terwilliger (sterwill@postman.sourcegear.com)
Mon, 20 Sep 1999 14:07:57 -0500


Martin Cleaver wrote:
> I am just trying AbiWord on a Mandrake Linux (5.3 machine with the 2.2.
> kernel... but it seems to cause total kernel panic when I try to load a
> Messy DOC file... Linux says:
>
> "the FIB lied to us, making a heroic effort to use the other table stream,
> hold on tight"
>
> Cleaned cache of 0RR etc...

Are you _really_ getting a kernel panic? I've never seen Linux panic
from a user-space application. Those error messages are from AbiWord
(actually from libwv, our Word importer). I have seen it slow down
a machine when it's sitting in that loop, and it may be allocating
lots of memory, but a Control-C to the controlling terminal will
kill it.

If you're getting a genuine kernel panic, you've found some horrible
bug in the Linux kernel and you should probably report it to
linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu as soon as possible.

> I am also interetsed to know how I can put alternate spelling checkjers in
> (UK or Dutch) and when we can expe3ct etc grammar checking ;-)

Grammar checking is probably not a feature that will work its way
into a release soon. You can, however, change your dictionaries
by editing your ~/.AbiSuite/AbiWord.Profile, changing both occurances
of "_builtin_" to "custom" and changing the following two lines:

SpellCheckDirectory="dictionary"
SpellCheckWordList="american.hash"

... to whatever you wish. It looks for the file by expanding something
like $(ABISUITE_HOME)/$SpellCheckDirectory/$SpellCheckWordList.
$(ABISUITE_HOME) is set for you by the wrapper script that starts
AbiWord. It's already set to something like /usr/share/abisuite or
/usr/local/AbiSuite (depending on which package you installed), so
you can put your favorite dictionary in $(ABISUITE_HOME)/$SpellCheckDirectory
and point AbiWord to it.

-- 
Shaw Terwilliger


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