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Offline enoch

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abiword wont launch
« on: October 06, 2009, 04:04:21 AM »
Soo many questions thanks everyone for your help.
Now after downloading abiword tcz ,installed, click the wbar icon and nothing?

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Re: abiword wont launch
« Reply #1 on: October 06, 2009, 04:06:34 AM »
What happens if you try to launch from a terminal (type "abiword")?
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Re: abiword wont launch
« Reply #2 on: October 06, 2009, 04:24:21 AM »
When I checked few month ago ABIWORD I have seen it overwrote DBUS system config and caused incompatibility issues. Sorry I forgot to report it, I was busy with many other stuff.

I guess it is a DBUS related issue due to DBUS locations changed.
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Offline Juanito

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Re: abiword wont launch
« Reply #3 on: October 06, 2009, 04:32:12 AM »
It's true that /etc/dbus-1 moved to /usr/local/etc/dbus-1, but it should write it's own dbus config file rather than overwriting the dbus config, no?
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Re: abiword wont launch
« Reply #4 on: October 06, 2009, 05:06:49 AM »
It's true that /etc/dbus-1 moved to /usr/local/etc/dbus-1, but it should write it's own dbus config file rather than overwriting the dbus config, no?

Yes, placed into the system.d directory same way as HAL.
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Re: abiword wont launch
« Reply #5 on: October 06, 2009, 05:07:37 AM »
Abiword is compiled without dbus. So unless it's doing something weird without libdbus..
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Re: abiword wont launch
« Reply #6 on: October 06, 2009, 05:11:42 AM »
Abiword is now missing libgsf. When I try to install it separately, some key files are still missing.

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Re: abiword wont launch
« Reply #7 on: October 06, 2009, 05:30:52 AM »
Ah - I split the old librsvg.tczl extension into it's component parts - libcroco, libgsf, librsvg - maybe this could be the problem?

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Re: abiword wont launch
« Reply #8 on: October 06, 2009, 05:40:24 AM »
Things change fast 'round here :P Added libgsf and libcroco to .dep. Abiword starts on a base norestore 2.4rc4.
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Re: abiword wont launch
« Reply #9 on: October 06, 2009, 05:44:14 AM »
..my fault, I should have caught that. I'll double-check for similar cases.

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Re: abiword wont launch
« Reply #10 on: October 06, 2009, 05:50:48 AM »
Maybe we should start acting like the big software vendors. No big changes without an advance notice of a month, then provide backwards compatibility for 5 years. And since we have access to all software in our repo, automated reports about what needs changing, when and how. And maybe testing, QA and QC.

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Re: abiword wont launch
« Reply #11 on: October 06, 2009, 05:51:28 AM »
typing abiword in a terminal yields error while loading shared libraries: libgsf-1.so.114

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Re: abiword wont launch
« Reply #12 on: October 06, 2009, 05:54:58 AM »
Please retry with the updated abiword.tcz:

rm /usr/local/tce.installed/abiword
tce-load -w -i abiword.tcz
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Re: abiword wont launch
« Reply #13 on: October 06, 2009, 05:59:02 AM »
I'm seeing the same thing as enoch using "base norestore". Is the libgsf package corrupted?

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Re: abiword wont launch
« Reply #14 on: October 06, 2009, 06:24:01 AM »
Sorry, I'm stupid. Talking without checking first what I'm saying  :-\

It is not ABIWORD, it is GNUMERIC with DBUS setup.
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