You're not alone, I've experienced an almost identical problem. See 'Abiword segfault when run under non-root account' in the archives.
This is on a stock Suse8.0 machine. I agree, it's a very puzzling problem. Unfortunately, I don't have any answers or suggestions of what to do about it. You have saved me a bit of time, though, by checking that the absence of the gnome libraries is not the problem. Thanks :-) I'm willing to help test any potential solutions, but would need some guidance. (ie bug fix in cvs etc). David Schutt Speco, Inc On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 02:20:07PM +0100, Keith Powell wrote: > I have downloaded and installed AbiWord 1.0.1 from the Sourceforge mirrors. > > It runs if I am logged in as Root, but if I am logged in as a User, when I try > to start AbiWord, it crashes with the error message: > > Application /usr/share/AbiSuite/bin/AbiWord process 1055 (the number varies) > has crashed due to a fatal error. Segmentation fault. > > I try to run AbiWord on one desktop, but all four of my desktops have the > splash screen on them. The splash screens remain until I clear the error > message. > > I have tried installing the SuSE jeo RPMs, the Gnome and GTK RPMs, and > compiling the tar.gz version. All give me the same result. The process number > varies with the different installations. With all of the downloaded versions, > I have tried both upgrading the working version which is supplied with SuSE8 > and also uninstalling it and doing a fresh install. Can't think of anything > else to try! > > I have regularly updated AbiWord and have not had this problem before. As no > one else has mentioned it, I am assuming that it is not a bug but a problem > with my installation. What is puzzling is that it runs when in root. Starting > it from a terminal does not give any messages of libraries missing. > > If any one can please help, I would be extremely grateful. > > Many thanks > > Keith > ----------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word > unsubscribe in the message body. ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
