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Date:      Sun, 27 Jan 2008 16:17:46 +0100
From:      "Steiner, Bernard" <Bernard.Steiner@lahmeyer.de>
To:        "Joe Marcus Clarke" <marcus@marcuscom.com>
Cc:        freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   abiword crash on stratup (was: Re: GNOME's newbiew woes and rantings)
Message-ID:  <0E3C8932B8AFFF4294C69ABF71FB23656C7F3F@ZDEXV001.lahmeyer.com>
References:  <0E3C8932B8AFFF4294C69ABF71FB23656171C5@ZDEXV001.lahmeyer.com> <1201034787.54891.33.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>

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Hi there,

>> Some processes SEGV on me straight away (abiword, some screen savers, =
and others which I haven't the foggiest idea what they are supposed to =
do). The number of *.core files I got since I started on GNOME simply =
amazes me.
>>
>> Methinks I am missing something very basic and fundamental here. I =
just cannot begin to assume that anybody would even consider using GNOME =
if it really were as buggy as that.

[JMC answered]
> That said, I run GNOME on amd64 (as do a few other users), and I don't
> have the problems you're describing.  There was a recent bug in =
AbiWord
> on amd64 that I fixed which caused it to crash at startup.  As far as =
I
> know AbiWord has since been working for people on amd64.

I have since re-make-d abiword WITH_DEBUG=3Dyes and gotten the =
following:

...
DEBUG: Impossible to open font file =
[/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF/GohaTibebZemen.otf] [0]
.DEBUG: Impossible to open font file =
[/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF/SyrCOMAdiabene.otf] [0]
...
DEBUG: pd_Document::setAttrProp: setting dom-dir to ltr
DEBUG: Could not open file =
/usr/local/share/AbiSuite-2.4/templates/normal.awt-en
...
DEBUG: Doing replace document=20
DEBUG: XAP_App::notifyFrameCountChange(): count=3D1
DEBUG: !!!!!!!!! _showdOCument: Initial izoom is 100=20
DEBUG: Got FrameImpl f2bc00 area 12573f0=20
DEBUG: searchFont [Sans]

**** (1) Assert ****
**** (1) font at gr_UnixGraphics.cpp:1198 ****
**** (1) Continue ? (y/n) [y] :=20


I do have -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  334284 Jan 13 14:31 =
/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF/GohaTibebZemen.otf
so I don't understand why there's such a fuzz about it...
Having said that, I have, in the meantime, installed libotf and will see =
whether that gets me anywhere.


On another note, I would like somebody to put in the GNOME FAQ the hint =
that removable media are supposed to get
mounted on /media. Took me a couple of days to work that out. My /media =
faithfully served as a mount point for
digital cameras' images and as such the mountpoint on root carried =
schg,sunlnk and the /media filesystem
was mode 700 for root (underlying directory re-exported read-only via =
nullfs :-)
(There's a bug in msdosfs label handling which fried GEOM, but that's a =
matter for another group ;-)

Bernard



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