Re: [Fink-beginners] aspell stopped working

[Michèle Garoche]

Le 9 mars 2006 à 16:48, Joerg van den Hoff a écrit :

Michèle Garoche wrote:

Le 8 mars 2006 à 16:23, Joerg van den Hoff a écrit :

hi everybody,



aspell -c myfile.txt



the problem: no keyboard input is accepted. the whole thing hangs.

I ktraced the program start. the bottom line (in both senses) is:

21375 aspell   CALL  poll(0xbfffe968,0x1,0x64)
21375 aspell   RET   poll 1



I uninstalled aspell and reinstalled from source but to no avail.

I did'nt use 'aspell' for a while (which worked fine the last time I did). Now, if I use something like the interactive aspell screen is correctly initialized and aspell jumps to the first offending word demanding user input (ignore/ accept etc.). which repeats itself until infinity (more or less...). so I think aspell is running fine, waiting for user input, but for some reason the keystrokes are not reaching aspell anymore. question: is this actually, for instance, an ncurses problem or what is going on? and the usual question: what can I do?

thank's for responding:

You did not tell on which system you install it: version of Mac OS X, version of fink, which tree: binary, stable, unstable

no, I did'nt, sorry (realized this only after I'd sent it):

MacOS 10.4.5.
Package manager version: 0.24.12
Distribution version: 0.8.0.rsync
I use unstable (but aspell is from the stable branch anyway).

same problem on G5 and on powerbook

Which dictionary you use too?

default (us-english, I believe?), english, german. none of these work

Are those the ones in Fink? I ask because there are two versions of dictionaries on the upstream site and I'm not sure how the new ones work, though they are stated as compatible, but I've never tested them.

And does moving temporarily ~/.aspell.xx.prepl makes it work? (where xx is the two-letter language identification)

this has no effect.

the whole thing is really strange. ispell still works fine interactively, for instance. whereas "aspell -c myfile.txt" starts up and hangs using near 100% CPU time due to the industrious polling... are there some not-so-obvious libraries which I should try reinstalling?

If you use rsync from Apple, it is better to either switch to rsync in Fink or to use cvs, see the news on the fink web site.

Cheers,
Michèle
<http://micmacfr.homeunix.org>

Then after you decide the way to go, you could probably first selfupdate, then fink update-all. Thereafter if none of the libraries involved in aspell have been rebuilt during the fink update-all process, you could try to rebuild ncurses, libncurses5-shlibs, and then aspell. Another thing you could try is to remove temporarily ispell, and see if that solves the problem. Oh, check also that you have not aspell- compat installed, it should not be there since it conflicts with ispell, but who knows.

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