From: Bronislaw Baraniecki (bemak@plejada.it.pl)
Date: Sat Apr 13 2002 - 14:25:53 EDT
Dnia sob 13. kwiecień 2002 12:56, andy_man@popmail.com napisał:
Hi,
I'm really not shure if I can help you, but please say first what distrib
are you on (RedHat?) and did you installed AW from the sources or from
*rpm package? I guess from rpm, true?
After I get this info will try to find a solution for you.
Bronek
> Hello!
> I would appreciate some help with this.
> I can't start AbiWord.
> I guess it has something to do with environment or search paths,
> but I'm not really good at this.
> At the moment, I have uninstall and then reinstall Abi each time I want
> to start it. After that it works till I reboot. Then it's the same
> again.
>
> Andy
>
>
> This is the previous message:
> -----------------------------
> First time I start Abi I only get the "could not add it's typefaces to
> the X font path". That's all, I just have to press OK and everything
> works OK from then. However I do indeed have the > load "type1" <
> string included in the /etc/X11/XF86config-4 file. I run the I run the
> command $ /usr/sbin/chkfontpath -a /usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts and it
> says something like "it's already there".
>
> After reboot though, when starting AbiWord I get the message: "could
> not find any local fonts files in the font path". Then it says I should
> start Abi through a script rather that executing the binary directly.
> If so, where's that script file? Anyway, it says that the current font
> path is /usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts/ - isn't that the correct one? And
> when I list that dir, there are plenty of fonts there. However, this
> time I run the command $ /usr/sbin/chkfontpath -a
> /usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts it says: "chkfontpath: error opening
> /usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts/fonts.dir" What does that mean? Is there
> supoosed to be a file there called "fonts.dir"? How do I create it?
>
> Third time I try to open AbiWord, I get both these two messages. When I
> have clicked OK on both of them, nothing more happens. So now I can't
> start AbiWord. I would appreciate some guidance. I have looked in the
> user-list and the how-to, but I can't understand what to do.
>
> Thanks!
>
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