Abiword only runs as root

From: david-abi@aminal.com
Date: Tue May 28 2002 - 12:43:06 EDT

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    On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 12:01:27AM +0200, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
    > According to david-abi@aminal.com <david-abi@aminal.com>:
    > > 'xset +fp /usr/local/AbiSuite/fonts' succeeds when run from a user account
    > > on my Suse8.0 test machine. This suggests to me that users do have sufficient
    > > permissions to change the font path, although I don't know if Abiword and
    > > xset both use the same means to accomplish this.
    >
    > AbiWord wrapper script use xset too.
    >
    > >
    > >
    > > Running under gdb (actually DDD) produces -
    > >
    > > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
    > > 0x081168a9 in EV_Toolbar_label::getToolTip ()
    > >
    > >
    > > I don't know how meaningful this is, but I thought it might provide a
    > > clue.
    >
    > You may need to remove ~/.AbiSuite/AbiWord.Profile (save it first, so
    > that we can get it if that is the solution)
    >
    > That can help.
    >
    > Hub

    That was it.

    I've attached the offending file as AbiWord.Profile.bak.

    A diff between this file and one that works reveals nothing to
    me, I hope it does to you :-)

    Thank you very, very much.

    David Schutt
    Speco Inc.



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