From: Mark Gilbert (markgilbert@hotpop.com)
Date: Wed Oct 09 2002 - 23:20:24 EDT
On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 22:51, Jon Zweig wrote:
> Hello-
>
> I installed the Ximian Desktop which included AbiWord onto RH 7.3.
> Everyting worked great except AbiWord which gave the splash screen then
> a segmentation fault hang. I reinstalled AbiWord from the RPM then the
> source but keep getting the following hang:
>
> when I attempt to run abiword I get the error:
>
> AbiWord was not able to add its fonts to the X font path. This does not
> mean there is anything wrong with your system but you will need to
> modify your font path manually.
>
> when I click OK, I get another box telling me
>
> AbiWord could not find any local font files in its font path. Often this
> error is the result of invoking AbiWord directly instead of through its
> wrapper shell script. The script sets the environment variable
> $ABISUITE_HOME which should point to the directory where AbiSuite
> Components reise. The current font path contains the following
> directories: [/usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts].
That's right...
>
> When I check this directory, it is full of afm, afb and atm files. Have
> been unable to find the wrapper shell script to invoke.
/usr/bin/abiword (I assume things throughout, if it follows other RH
designs) is a symlink to the wrapper (AbiWord), which sets a bunch of
environmental stuff (including fontpath) and then calls AbiWord_d, or
alternatively, AbiWord_s.
Parhaps that old b0rken issue the ximian/rh folks kept stumbling over
with emptying the fontdir files due to an extra newline (or something to
that effect)? What version of abiword is this?
-MG
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